Books written by Ariel Dorfman
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Some Write to the Future: Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction
This is the first English translation of the essays, which were written and published over a 20-year span. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Chile: The Other September 11: An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup
This anthology reclaims the tragic date of September 11 as the anniversary of the US-backed coup in Chile in 1973 by General Augusto Pinochet against the popularly elected Allende government.
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Manifesto for Another World
Equally moving are the stories of more than thirty others, unknown and (as yet) unsung beyond their national boundaries: Kailash Satyarthi, who has spent a lifetime working to free tens of thousands of victims of child labor in his native ...
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Desert Memories: Desert Memories
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 ...
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My House is on Fire
In these short stories, Dorfman writes of love and betrayal, of families broken apart by hope and fear, of personal lives invaded by political authority, and of men and women who long for privacy.
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The Nanny and the Iceberg: A Novel
" Into Gabriel’s quest for manhood and identity enter one iceberg, a faithful if eccentric nanny, and a whole host of fantastical characters.
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Mascara
Dorfman's latest novel is a tantalizingly ambiguous web of deceit, intrigue and obsession, its layers of meaning gradually revealed. The first, and longest, part of the book is a paranoic...
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Hard Rain
"You don't know us," the writer said. "We're different here in Chile." Ariel Dorfman's early novel Hard Rain was written in the last chaotic months before the Pinochet bloodbath ended...
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Burning City
This summer will be memorable for Heller as he finds himself drawn into the lives of a wildly diverse cast of characters, accidentally falling in love, and relating to people in a whole new way. From the Hardcover edition.
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The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds
Argues that popular culture, in books, comics, and magazines, reflects reactionary values and looks at examples in the United States and Chile
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In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages
. . .Writing like this is a rare source of hope."-W. S. Merwin
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Widows
A town gripped by oppression is completely peopled by women.
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Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman switched languages and countries--not once, but three times--is a day-to-day account of his multiple escapes from death during Pinochet's military takeover of Chile in 1973.
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Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
Focusing on his repeated escapes from death during a military coup in Chile, an acclaimed Latin American novelist and Chilean expatriate traces influences of American and Latin American culture, politics,...
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Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto 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 issues, made all the more urgent after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001.
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The Last Song of Manuel Sendero
Denying the future until government leaders end repression, revolutionary fetuses refusing to be born begin to argue amongst themselves and one by one choose to be born until only the...