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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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Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 983.06 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016214

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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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