Heading South, Looking North

Heading South, Looking North

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Ariel Dorfman

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 288


A beautifully written meditation on belonging and exile, language and culture, cowardice and loyalty, revolution, tyranny and the idealism of youth. It follows the internationally renowned writer s eventful, nomadic life from birth in Argentina to childhood in New York and adolescence in Chile to the 1973 coup against Allende, when a stroke of luck saved him from death. Heading South, Looking North gives a fascinating insight into McCarthyite America and South America in the 60s, and into Ariel Dorfman s formation as a writer and powerful crusader against political oppression.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Ariel Dorfman

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 288


A beautifully written meditation on belonging and exile, language and culture, cowardice and loyalty, revolution, tyranny and the idealism of youth. It follows the internationally renowned writer s eventful, nomadic life from birth in Argentina to childhood in New York and adolescence in Chile to the 1973 coup against Allende, when a stroke of luck saved him from death. Heading South, Looking North gives a fascinating insight into McCarthyite America and South America in the 60s, and into Ariel Dorfman s formation as a writer and powerful crusader against political oppression.