Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin Contributor(s): García Márquez, Gabriel (Author), Goldman, Francisco (Preface by), Zatz, Asa (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1590173406 ISBN-13: 9781590173404 Publisher: New York Review of Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 2010 * Out of Print * Click for more in this series: New York Review Books Classics |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
Dewey: 983.064 |
LCCN: 2009031816 |
Series: New York Review Books Classics |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.38" W x 8.68" L (0.41 lbs) 160 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 1980's |
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian |
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 61 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In 1973, the film director Miguel Litt n fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and turned Chile into a laboratory to test the poisonous prescriptions of the American economist Milton Friedman. In 1985, Litt n returned to Chile disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. He was desperate to see the homeland he'd been exiled from for so many years; he also meant to pull off a very tricky stunt: with the help of three film crews from three different countries, each supposedly busy making a movie to promote tourism, he would secretly put together a film that would tell the truth about Pinochet's benighted Chile--a film that would capture the world's attention while landing the general and his secret police with a very visible black eye. Afterwards, the great novelist Gabriel Garc a M rquez sat down with Litt n to hear the story of his escapade, with all its scary, comic, and not-a-little surreal ups and downs. Then, applying the same unequaled gifts that had already gained him a Nobel Prize, Garc a M rquez wrote it down. Clandestine in Chile is a true-life adventure story and a classic of modern reportage. |
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