Synopsis In a Latin American country under a military dictatorship, Irene Beltran, an upper-class journalist, and Francisco Leal, the photographer son of a Marxist professor, discover a hideous crime.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1987-05-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 17.6 oz |
Publisher's Note Irene Beltran, a reporter for a women's magazine in a Latin American country, and Francisco Leal, a photographer and a clandestine worker in the resistance, uncover a hideous crime that challenges the official terrorism of their country's military dictato.
Industry Reviews "Allende skillfully evokes both the terrors of daily life under military rule and the subtler forms of resistance in the hidden corners... and when you've successfully mingled sex and politics with a noble cause, how can you go wrong?"
"Allende's work contains depths of empathy and compassion rarely found in fiction that embraces a political cause... She is a writer of deep conviction, but she knows that in the end it is people, not issues, who matter most." Graeber
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