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In contemporary Chile, Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel poet, has just died and political factions, clamor to use the event to their gain, while a man and a woman, both struggling with the violence of their country, fall in love
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This is the political novel Donoso was unable to write while in exile from Chile. Unlike the allegorical A House in the Country, his seventh book provides a gritty, realistic, yet eloquent vision of the author's beleaguered homeland12 years into Pinochet's dictatorship. Manungo Vera, a pop singer who has had some success in Europe but is now on the way down, returns to Santiago and is swept up in preparations for the funeral of Matilde Neruda, widow of the poet. Vera meets an old lover, Judit Torre, at a bar. The radical daughter of a wealthy fathera front page headline called her a "Debutante Turned Criminal"Judit symbolizes elitist alienation. After an intense bout of lovemaking, and a near brush with death, the two join the huge crowd that has gathered at the cemetery for the funeral, now an anarchic battleground as both the left and right try to manipulate the event to their own advantage. Time is compressed into 24 hours, giving a heady urgency to the lovers' plans. Donoso's powerful vision of contemporary Chileseen through the grotesque optic that is his trademarkmakes Curfew an important literary event.
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicholson
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 155584166X
- ISBN 13 9781555841669
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages310
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