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Clandestine in Chile : the Adventures of Miguel Littin / Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; translated by Asa Zatz

By:

García Márquez, Gabriel, (1928-2014)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : New York Review Books , c1987, c1986.Description: x, 116 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781590173404

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DDC classification:

LAS 983.06 GAR

Summary: After 12 years of exile, well-known movie director Miguel Littin returns to Chile clandestinely to film a documentary on life under the Pinochet regime. In the skilled hands of Nobel laureate Garcia Marquez, the first-person account (based on taped conversations) becomes a chilling thriller. The story holds the reader in suspense until the final escape with a 105,000-foot ``donkey's tail'' of film Littin intends to pin onto the dictatorship. It forcefully demonstrates that fear and repression now reign in a country once so dedicated to democratic ideals.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 983.06 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016214

Translation of: La aventura de Miguel Littín, clandestino en Chile.

After 12 years of exile, well-known movie director Miguel Littin returns to Chile clandestinely to film a documentary on life under the Pinochet regime. In the skilled hands of Nobel laureate Garcia Marquez, the first-person account (based on taped conversations) becomes a chilling thriller. The story holds the reader in suspense until the final escape with a 105,000-foot ``donkey's tail'' of film Littin intends to pin onto the dictatorship. It forcefully demonstrates that fear and repression now reign in a country once so dedicated to democratic ideals.

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