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Desert Memories, Journeys Through the Chilean North
by Ariel Dorfman
- TRAVEL NARRATIVE
- 2003
- HARD COVER
- 304 PAGES
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A quest for national history, personal memories, and family origins in the Atacama by the noted playwright, novelist, and essayist. Dofrman, whose wife's family first settled in the north, tackles the legacy of mining, Pinochet, and his own history in this meditative account. We also recommend Dorfman's Heading South, Looking North (CHI22), a memoir. Dorman is professor of literature at Duke. A book in the series National Geographic Directions.
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