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"A work of tremendous ambition... A fantastic, wide-ranging family saga. Dorfman creates a disturbing portrait of Chile in the early 1990s."
"Wonderfully peopled with doppelgangers, metafictional turns and doses of myth and magic. It affirms Ariel Dorfman's place, alongside Vargo Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as one of the finest voices in contemporary Latin American storytelling."
"The writing is vital, urgent, energetic, the twists and turns of the plot ingeniously upredictable: a magician's box of tricks."
"A fascinating read... worth every labyrinthine page!"
"This is an astonishing book, particularly for admirers of Dorfman's overpowering play, Death and the Maiden... a richly comic and wild extravanza about life before and after General Pinochet, written with all the freedom and verve of a writer whose own persona, once threatened, has long been safe but who regards laughter as the greatest of all political weapons and sex as the great healer... brilliantly constructed... a wonderful, rumbustious and entertaining novel.
"This is a Latin American novel written in English, and its sensibility is a cross between the macho masculinism of the barrio and the street smarts of New York."
Conceived the night of Che Guevara’s burial in 1967, Gabriel McKenzie is inextricably bound up in the history and politics of his native Chile. Twenty-four years on, and still a virgin, Gabriel returns from Manhattan exile to confront his legacy: a Don Juan father and a country preparing for the five-hundredth anniversary of America’s "discovery." Into Gabriel’s quest for manhood and identity enter one iceberg, a faithful if eccentric nanny, and a whole host of fantastical characters.
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