Ariel Dorfman, Author . Seven Stories $21.95 (175p) ISBN 978-1-58322-070-2
Portentously taking its section epigraphs from Calderón de la Barca and Dante, Dorfman's latest novel is a slender allegory based on nothing less than the conditions of reality in contemporary capitalist culture. Graham Blake is the owner
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Ariel Dorfman, Author . Seven Stories $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-58322-542-4
Acclaimed Chilean novelist Dorfman (Blake's Therapy,
etc.) offers a work slim but dense with emotion. The author follows the appeals, victories and defeats involved in Spain's, and then Chile's own, attempts to try Augusto Pinochet for...
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Ariel Dorfman, Author . National Geographic Directions $21 (283p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6240-4
Prolific Chilean writer Dorfman and his wife, Angélica, travel north from Santiago, Chile, through the world's driest desert, the Atacama, an area where two millimeters of rain can cause a deadly mudslide. In recounting his journey "to...
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Ariel Dorfman, Author Siete Cuentos Editorial $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-58322-071-9
For a review of Dorfman's most recent book, Terapia, see p. 25.
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Ariel Dorfman, Author Readers International $18.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-930523-77-0
Composed of fragments of narratives interspersed with reviews of other novels whose subject is the socialist revolution in Chile during the early '70s, this novel, written in 1972 and until now unavailable in English, tells the story of a country...
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Ariel Dorfman, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-011253-5
A paranoiac monologue by a nameless man with a face that no one recognizes or remembers reveals a life of carefully constructed obscurity. ``Chilean exile Dorfman's latest work (after The Last Song of Manuel Sendero ) is a tantalizingly ambiguous...
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Ariel Dorfman, Author Penguin Books $63.6 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-778265-6
In this startlingly unconventional novel by the Chilean exile, unborn babies resist coming into the world as a form of protest again Pinochet's government in Chile, and two exiles discuss the idea of spreading their message in comic strips. ""Demandi
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Ariel Dorfman, Author Viking Books $17.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-670-82314-7
Chilean exile Dorfman's latest work (after The Last Song of Manuel Sendero ) is a tantalizingly ambiguous web of deceit, intrigue and obsession, its layers of meaning gradually revealed. The first, and longest, part of the book is a paranoic...
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Ariel Dorfman, Author Viking Books $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-670-82021-4
The title story of Chilean writer Dorfman's ( Mascara ) collection embodies, as dramatically and movingly as any of these 11 passionate, brilliant tales, their common theme of human distress under the Pinochet regime. With mingled terror and...
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Ariel Dorfman, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17 (177p) ISBN 978-0-374-18218-2
The gifted and versatile Dorfman's new novel, written almost entirely in dialogue, develops an almost unbearable intensity as it charts the relationship between its two principal characters in a time setting that is deliberately left vague. A woman,
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Ariel Dorfman, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-16862-9
The details of this artfully constructed memoir by a Chilean novelist probably best known in this country for his play Death and the Maiden are dramatic, but what makes the book remarkable is its continuing meditation on language and its role in...
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Ariel Dorfman, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-21898-0
Framed as a suicide note from a lovelorn Chilean-American to his Internet sweetheart, Dorfman's eccentric new novel convolutes with its narrator's obsessive musings and exquisite bad luck. On the eve of his 25th birthday, Gabriel McKenzie recounts...
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Ariel Dorfman. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-547-54946-0
Exploring for the first time his years in exile following the brutal 1973 overthrow of President Allende by General Pinochet, celebrated Chilean novelist and playwright Dorfman (Death and the Maiden) gorgeously evokes his lifelong search for home,...
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Ariel Dorfman, Author, Joaquin Dorfman, Author . Random $15.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-83203-1
Heller Highland, 16, works at "Soft Tidings," an unlikely Manhattan company that delivers "news with a personal touch." Uncommon empathy makes him the firm's choice to deliver the worst news—a capsized boat off the Albanian
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Ariel Dorfman, Author, Edith Grossman, Photographer Puffin Books $8.95 (9p) ISBN 978-0-14-058608-4
The Chilean author who taught us all How to Read Donald Duck here reminds us in a thumping collection of protest poetry that Chile is a country where dissidents continue to vanish without a trace, leaving behind torn families who cannot decide...
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Ariel Dorfman, Author, Stephen Kessler, Translator Penguin Books $9 (160p) ISBN 978-0-14-011659-5
Set in occupied Greece during WW II, Dorfman's first novel to be translated into English limns the women of a village whose men have been imprisoned and killed as conspirators. Confronting their oppressors, the widows stubbornly resist their power...
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Ariel Dorfman, illus. by Chris Riddell. Triangle Square, $12.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-60980-937-9
Argentine-Chilean-American novelist Dorfman’s only children’s book, which was written in the 1970s and published in the U.K. in 2001, makes its uncannily timed arrival on U.S. shores. After wolves conquer the land of the rabbits, their pompous...
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Ariel Dorfman. Other Press, $21.99 trade paper (688p) ISBN 978-1-63542-389-1
Was Chilean president Salvador Allende’s death during the 1973 military coup a murder or a suicide? That real-life historical inquiry animates this engrossing work of autofiction from Dorfman (Death and the Maiden). In 1990, enigmatic Dutch...
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