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Death and the Maiden - Ariel Dorfman
Death and the Maiden
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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... show more
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780140246841 (0140246843)
ASIN: 140246843
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
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4.0 To Kill or Not to Kill
Death and the Maiden is a theme that is constantly used in sculpture. Here the meaning is transformed. The maiden isn’t exactly a maid, and she might, in fact, be death. The plot concerns a woman who is convinced that a man is the criminal who tortured, the man in question, and the woman’s husban...
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