Donoso jos (13 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 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 ntilde;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 eacute; Donoso evokes the suffocating atmosphere of a country under dictatorship, and its quietly devastating effect on the actions of those who live there.…

Paperback. Zustand: Like New. All of a sudden, Blanca Arias has it all. The daughter of middling Nicaraguan diplomats posted to Madrid, she marries, at the age of 19, the equally young and passionate Marquess of Loria, her darling Paquito, heir to one of the largest fortunes (and most august titles) in Spain. Paquito, as if on cue, dies of diphtheria, leaving his young widowed Marquise alone, free, and inconceivably rich. Donoso?s luxurious and disturbing work details the sexual awakening of the Marquise of Loria as her white-gloved chauffeur shuttles her from tryst to tryst. But it?s not all Patek Phillipes and pink champagne: Blanca?s mother-in-law Casilda is scheming with her gang of sycophants to take back ?their? fortune from this newly-minted Loria, and there?s no low they won?t sink to to get it. The mysterious presence of Luna, a Weimaraner pup who infiltrates Blanca?s chambers and hypnotizes her with his lunar gaze, twists this glittering elegy to the literary erotica of 1920s Madrid into something more: a psychological thriller and a profound investigation into the surfaces that the fortunate gild and polish to hide the darkness that lies beneath. As exuberant as it is explicit?and elegantly translated into English for the first time by Megan McDowell?The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria?shows the Boom-era master Donoso in a lighter mode, and the result is irresistible. …

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good, some creasing. *.

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Zustand: Very Good. 1995. paperback. Text in French. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Previous owner's name to title page. Remains a very good copy. . . . .

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. 2022. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Jan 01, 1900. Zustand: Used: Good. 2463.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 227 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.