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Renowned author Ariel Dorfman, obsessed for twenty-five years with the malignant shadow General Pinochet cast upon Chile and the world, followed every twist and turn of the four year old trial in Great Britain, Spain and Chile as well as in the U.S., the country that had created Pinochet. Told as a suspense thriller, filled with court-room drama and sudden reversals of fortune, the book at the same time addresses some of today's most burning i...

Graham Blake, un padre ejemplar, un sabio de mercadería, y presidente de la exitosa corporación Clean Earth, no puede dormir al enfrentar las decisiones difíciles de reducir el personal de su compañia. En busca de una solución a su problema se pone en manos del Doctor Carl Tolgate y su Corporate Life Therapy Institute. Por tres millones de dólares, le prometen reestablecerle una conciencia tranquila. Al someter al protagonista a un terapia rad...

Ariel Dorfman conoce bien el destierro. Antes de cumplir trece años, el había huído junto con su familia—judíos que se fueron forzosamente de Europa del Este—de Argentina a los Estados Unidos, y más tarde a Chile. Con el coup contra el presidente socialista de Chile Salvador Allende, Dorfman salió en exilio de nuevo, esta vez a Europa y luego a los Estados Unidos. Para el autor estas peregrinaciones entre países, culturas e idiomas representar...

The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful, '' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant exploration of one of the least known and most exotic corners of the globe. For 10, 000 years the desert had been mined for silver, iron, and copper, but it was the 19th-century discovery of nitrate that transformed the country into a modern state an...

In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzón, Helen Prejean, and Marian Wright Edelman, and Nobel Prize Laureates the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiese...

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, a...

A classic of 20th-century theatre, Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Roman Polanski starring Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver.

A woman seeks revenge when the man she believes to have been her torturer happens to re-enter her life.