Spanning a period of twenty years, each of these seven essays focuses on one Latin American author--including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Roa Bastos--comparing and contrasting the t
Formerly exiled Chilean author Ariel Dorfman, one of Latin America's greatest writers and a major literary figure of the twentieth century, is known for such critically acclaimed works as the novelWid
In these short stories, Dorfman writes of love and betrayal, of families broken apart by hope and fear, of personal lives invaded by political authority, and of men and women who long for privacy.