Dancer and the Thief (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393333671)

Celebrated for his "ability to place a personal story in the context of a national upheaval and make it warm, funny and universal" (San Francisco Chronicle), renowned Chilean novelist Antonio Sk疵meta delivers here the story of young ﾁngel Santiago and his beautiful girlfriend Victoria Ponce, a virtuosic dancer and high-school dropout whose father was a victim of the regime. Joining forces with the debonair safecracker Nicol疽 Vergara Gray, this unlikely trio dreams of escaping an embattled Chile free from the Pinochet dictatorship but not yet free from its shadow. This "powerful, humane" (Publishers Weekly) novel "confirms that [Sk疵meta] is not only one of the most accomplished Latin American writers of our time, but also probably the most entertaining" (Ariel Dorfman).

Author: Antonio Skarmeta, Antonio Sk Rmeta
ISBN-10: 0393333671
ISBN-13: 9780393333671
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 314
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.52w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/08/2009 pg. 20