It is difficult to find an analogue for the sustained passion and gentleness communicated in this absolutely stunning apotheosis of the poetry of sexual love. ... Neruda comes closest to the exultation of The Song of Solomon. ..

An account of the polarization of Chilean society under Augusto Pinochet and of Chile's return to democratic government.

The first objective history of the rise and fall of the Salvador Annelde's regime in Chile.

"it is about singing, despite beatings...the new public voices of women invented out of private pain."--Diane Russell-Pineda

In this book Julio Faúndez traces the development of Chilean politics from 1932 to the overthrow of Allende in 1973, focusing in particular on the participation of Marxist parties in Chile's democratic government.

This is the story of a youngster who is entrusted to the household of a member of the Santiago elite.

En Eva Luna, su tercera novela, Isabel Allende recupera su país a través de la memoria y de la imaginación.

The narrative focuses on the unlikely friendship of Mario Jimenez, the young poet-postman, and Pablo Neruda, the Nobel-winning Chilean poet, against the political backdrop of Chile's Allende years.

DIVTheorizes the cultural reactions--particularly those within the world of the visual arts, literature, and social science--to the oppression of dictatorship./div "Nelly Richard mobilizes language into a trenchant critique of the political ...