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Death and the Maiden

Death and the Maiden

â€œSuspenseful, riveting . . . Achieves a universality that is movingly personal.â€ â€”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 manâ€”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 humanityâ€”one in which everyone is implicated and justice itself comes to seem like a fragile, perhaps ambiguous invention.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0140246843_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1994-12-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140246841

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