Konfidenz - (Latin American Literature Series) by Ariel Dorfman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Told almost exclusively through dialogue, Konfidenz opens with a woman entering a hotel room and receiving a call from a mysterious stranger who seems to know everything about her and the reasons why she has fled her homeland. Over the next nine hours he tells her many disturbing things about her lover (who may be in great danger), the political situation in which they are enmeshed, and his fantasies of her. A terse political allegory that challenges our assumptions about character, the foundations of our knowledge, and the making of history, Konfidenz draws the reader into a postmodern mystery where nothing--including the text itself--is what it seems.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><P>"Dorfman uses the tension of an unstable political situation to force the reader into questioning his characters' stated truths, as well as their motivations. Exhilarating for its finely tuned unfolding but somber in its conclusions, Konfidenz demands a fundamental reexamination of the nature of trust."--Publishers Weekly<br><br>"Dorfman pushes the outer limit of the fictional envelope as daringly and imaginatively as Julio Cortazar and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."<br><br>"Exhilarating for its finely tuned unfolding but somber in its conclusions, Konfidenz demands a fundamental reexamination of the nature of trust."<br><br>"One of the most important voices coming out of Latin America."<br><br>"One of the SIX greatest living Latin American novelists."<br><br>"With Konfidenz, Dorfman steps confidently from the realm of Latin American Storyteller into the arena of a world novelist of the first category."<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><P>Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean American novelist and playwright. His works include the Laurence Olivier award-winning play Death and the Maiden. His latest books are Other Septembers, Many Americas and the novel, Burning City, written with his youngest son Joaquin.
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