Name: Widows
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Author: Dorfman, Ariel ; Kessler, Stephen
ISBN: 9781583224830

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ariel Dorfman

Translated by

Stephen Kessler

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

168

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.9 x 14.1 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

1583224831

ISBN13

9781583224830

Edition No.

Synopsis "Widows"

Set in a Greek village in 1942, and purportedly written from his imagination by a Danish man before he was picked up by the Gestapo and not seen again, here is Ariel Dorfman's haunting and universal parable of individual courage in the face of political oppression. Widows forms a testament to the disappeared--those living under totalitarian regimes the world over, who are taken away for "questioning" and never return.One by one, the bodies of men wash up on the shore of the river, where they are claimed by the women of the local town as husbands and fathers, even though the faces of the dead men are unrecognizable. A tug-of-war ensues between the local police, who insist that the women couldn't possibly recognize their loved ones, and the women demanding the right to bury their beloveds. As it evolves, the stand-off reveals itself to be a power struggle between love, dignity and honor, and the lesser god of brute force. A lesson in how power really works, and how it can be made to work differently.

Ariel Dorfman

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Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman Zelicovich (Buenos Aires; 6 de mayo de 1942), más conocido como Ariel Dorfman, es un escritor y activista de los derechos humanos argentino-chileno-estadounidense

Ha enseñado literatura iberoamericana en las universidades de Chile, en la de Ámsterdam, en La Sorbona (París IV), en la de California, Berkeley y en la de Maryland. Desde 1985, es profesor de Estudios latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Duke e investigador en otras casas de estudio de Estados Unidos.

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