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Burning Cityby Ariel Dorfman , Joaquin DorfmanISBN 0375832033 (0-375-83203-3)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Death and the Maidenby Ariel DorfmanISBN 0140246843 (0-14-024684-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Empire's Old Clothes : What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Mindsby Ariel DorfmanISBN 0140256377 (0-14-025637-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journeyby Ariel DorfmanISBN 014028253X (0-14-028253-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey'Book summary:Ariel Dorfman is no stranger to exile. Before his 30th birthday, he had fled with his parents (Jews who had escaped from Eastern Europe) from Argentina to the U.S. and then later to Chile. Then, following a military coup, he fled Chile for a stint in Europe before returning to the U.S. For Dorfman, this was not traveling but enduring, as his forced movement between nations, cultures, and languages left him without a place to call home or a culture he could completely define as his own. Although heralded as one of Latin America's leading writers, he once renounced the Spanish language and swore to become an American in both speech and culture. Later, while a student at Berkeley, he abandoned English with the same vengeance and returned to his native Spanish. Such vacillation caused him to ponder the role of language in forming identity, and this theme runs throughout Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey. His desire to embrace his Latin roots went beyond language, however, for it was politics that ultimately thrust him into the role of a writer, thus changing his life. He had wanted to be a part of the American protest movement, but he feared the official wrath that could befall him due to his immigrant status: "This seemed to be my fate. In Chile, I had been Argentinean; here, I was Chilean; always the danger of deportation, my foreign passport weighing down on me. So I looked on while heads were broken, sit-ins were disrupted, and damsels in distress were dragged off by the 'pigs.' ... My participation was always surreptitious and oblique...." But in Chile his involvement took a more active stance. His status as official citizen emboldened him and he enthusiastically embraced Salvador Allende's socialist movement, serving for a time as the administration's communications and media advisor; a choice that eventually earned him yet another round of exile back in the U.S. (where he continues to reside) after the death of Allende and the rise of General Augusto Pinochet. A remarkable story of perseverance and the inherent power of language, Heading South, Looking North is ultimately a quest for self-identity. The fact that he wrote this book in English may answer the question of where he stands--for now. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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- Heading South, Looking North : A Bilingual Journey: ISBN 0340713011 (0-340-71301-1)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division - Heading South, Looking North : A Bilingual Journey: ISBN 0340713003 (0-340-71300-3)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton Educational - Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey: ISBN 0374168628 (0-374-16862-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey: ISBN 014028253X (0-14-028253-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Heading South, Looking North : A Bilingual Journey: ISBN 0340713011 (0-340-71301-1)
Konfidenzby Ariel DorfmanISBN 0340637706 (0-340-63770-6)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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The Last Song of Manuel Senderoby Ariel DorfmanISBN 0140088962 (0-14-008896-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Last Waltz in Santiagoby Ariel Dorfman , Edith GrossmanISBN 0140586083 (0-14-058608-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mascaraby Ariel DorfmanISBN 0140112537 (0-14-011253-7)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mascara'Book summary:Mascara delves into the dark terrain of identity and disguise when the lives of three people collide. A nameless man with a face no one remembers has the devastating ability to see and capture on film the brutal truths lurking inside each person he encounters. Oriana, a beautiful woman with the memory of an innocent child, is relentlessly pursued by mysterious figures from her past. Doctor Mavirelli is a brilliant and power-hungry plastic surgeon who controls societys most prominent figures by shaping their faces. The twining of these three fates plays out in a climactic unmasking. [via]
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My House Is on Fireby Ariel Dorfman , George ShiversISBN 0140147284 (0-14-014728-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Nanny and the Icebergby Ariel DorfmanISBN 034071302X (0-340-71302-X)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nanny and the Iceberg'Book summary:A Chilean exile in New York, 23-year-old Gabriel McKenzie has a serious sexual complex: the specter of his father, a modern-day Don Juan, makes him fail every time in the bedroom. In Ariel Dorfman's keen comedy The Nanny and the Iceberg, Gabriel goes home with his mother in hopes of solving his problem. Dorfman marvelously tangles this story up with the intricacies of post-Pinochet Chilean politics. Gabriel was conceived the night of Che Guevara's burial. The next day, his father bet his best friend that he would have sex every day for the next 25 years, while his friend bet that he would become the most powerful man in the country. When Gabriel returns to Chile, both men are on track to win. This is also the year in which Chile is preparing to send a chunk of ice from Antarctica to Seville for the 1992 World's Fair (which actually happened). Our hero enmeshes himself and his family in this politically sensitive project, thinking that by putting both parents on the ice-collecting boat he can solve his bedroom complex. "That," says Gabriel, "was my blueprint for sexual success; like in some crazy porno Disney film for kids, I had to get my parents back together again." Of course, his problems are more complicated than that. As Dorfman tracks Gabriel's journey--in which his old nanny is powerfully present--he unleashes some of the major themes of existence: politics, family, lust, and anger. With a marksman's skill, he nails much of what's important in life and what's funny about it. The Nanny and the Iceberg lets life be messy, just as it is. --Katherine Anderson [via]
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- The Nanny and the Iceberg: ISBN 0340713038 (0-340-71303-8)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division - The Nanny and the Iceberg: ISBN 0374218986 (0-374-21898-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Nanny and the Iceberg: ISBN 034071302X (0-340-71302-X)
Softcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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Preso Sin Nombre, Celda Sin Numero / Prisoner Without Name, Cell Without Numberby Ariel DorfmanISBN 0299200442 (0-299-20044-2)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Widowsby Ariel DorfmanISBN 0140116591 (0-14-011659-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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