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The Poet's Wedding
Skarmeta has achieved a complex narrative which nonetheless reads simply, with a smoothness that is not at all naive, because beneath the anecdotes are hidden other readings and thus, with intelligence and joy, the story expands and broadens.
The Composition
Pedro is a nine-year-old boy whose main interest in life is playing soccer. The arrest of his friend Daniel's father and a visit to the school of an army captain who wants the children to write a composition entitled "What My Family Does at Night" suddenly force Pedro to make a difficult choice. The author's note explains what a dictatorship is and provides a context for this powerful and provocative story.
I Dreamt the Snow was Burning
A football player falls in with a crowd of politically active peers in Allende's Chile. He struts and preens and claims to be above politics until the mad tides of history sweep up all of them. As the country devolves into a nightmare of violence, political assassinations and turmoil his transformation begins.--Amazon
Postman
"A jewel of a story."—The New Yorker The unforgettable inspiration for the Academy Award–winning Il Postino, this classic novel established Antonio Skármeta’s reputation as “one of the most representative authors of the post-boom generation in contemporary Latin American letters” (Christian Science Monitor). Boisterously funny and passionate, The Postman tells of young love ignited by the poetry of Pablo Neruda. Set in the colorful, ebullient years preceding the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, the book has been translated into nearly twenty-five languages around the world.
Burning Patience
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The Days of the Rainbow
Nico, the son of a noted Chilean philosophy professor, witnesses his father’s arrest while he is teaching a class. Bettini, the father of Nico’s best friend, is a leftist advertising executive who has been blacklisted and is out of work after having been imprisoned and tortured by Pinochet’s police. This doesn’t stop the ministry of the interior from asking Bettini, who is the best in the business, to come up with a plan for the upcoming referendum designed to say “yes” to Pinochet’s next term. But just hours after he has been approached by the right, the head of the opposition makes him the exact same offer. What is Bettini going to do? Put his life on the line or sacrifice hi...
Postman, The/ Il Postino
"A jewel of a story." The New Yorker The unforgettable inspiration for the Academy Awardwinning Il Postino, this classic novel established Antonio Skßrmeta's reputation as one of the most representative authors of the post-boom generation in contemporary Latin American letters (Christian Science Monitor). Boisterously funny and passionate, The Postman tells of young love ignited by the poetry of Pablo Neruda. Set in the colorful, ebullient years preceding the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, the book has been translated into nearly twenty-five languages around the world. .
Watch where the Wolf is Going
These virtuoso stories by the great Chilean writer show passion and politics, hope and disillusionment in the New World, ranging from the Conquistadors to the present day and from Santiago to New York and California.
The Insurrection
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Love-fifteen
A middle-age doctor falls for a 15-year-old patient. He is Dr. Raymond Pabst, an American sports physician, she is Sophie Mass, a German tennis star. A steamy romance.
