By the author of "The Obscene Bird of the Night", "Sacred Families" and "A House in the Country", this is a story of the tragic love between an upper-middle-class radical woman and her lover who has returned after a career as a European pop star.
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By the author of "The Obscene Bird of the Night", "Sacred Families" and "A House in the Country", this is a story of the tragic love between an upper-middle-class radical woman and her lover who has returned after a career as a European pop star.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardcover Cloth 310 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Picador First edition First printing 1990 with corresponding number line. Handsome black boards and silver embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Top edge spotted. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with the usual shelf wear-a few scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn the event to their advantage: for Pinochet's junta, it represents a chance to assert political authority, while for the intellectuals who had basked in the Nerudas' light, it is an opportunity to grab the spoils of the estate. Against this backdrop of complex, often conflicting motivations, Donoso weaves a portrait of a society struggling to fashion a daily existence for itself, and of an intelligentsia vainly attempting to salvage the remnants of glory days long gone by. But Curfew is also a story of the tragic love between Judit Torre, an upper-middle-class radical who wants to escape her bitter past; and Ma? ? ungo Vera, a native son returning after a successful career as a European pop singer. In the zone between documentary-like realism and grotesque absurdity, Jos? ? Donoso evokes the suffocating atmosphere of a country under dictatorship, and its quietly devastating effect on the actions of those who live there. 310 pp.
