| Death and the Maiden Tie-In Edition Contributor(s): Dorfman, Ariel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140246843 ISBN-13: 9780140246841 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1994 Annotation: Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man--the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Drama | Caribbean & Latin American - Drama | Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 862.64 |
| Series: Penguin Plays |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.04" W x 7.75" (0.19 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Suspenseful, riveting . . . Achieves a universality that is movingly personal." --The New York Times The explosively provocative, award-winning drama set in a country that has just emerged from a totalitarian dictatorship Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man--the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before. Relentlessly paced and filled with lethal surprises, Death and the Maiden is an inquest into the darker side of humanity--one in which everyone is implicated and justice itself comes to seem like a fragile, perhaps ambiguous invention. |