Product Description: “Another splendid book by Diamela Eltit, Chile’s most celebrated experimental writer. In collaboration with renowned photographer Paz Errázuriz, Eltit questions the lovers’ discourse—how this magic is born, how it is sustained and nourished—and roots her perspective in those outcasts whom society has condemned to the margins...read more

Product Description: “Custody of the Eyes is Helen Lane and Ronald Christ’s brilliant translation of Diamela Eltit’s Los vigilantes (1994). In the novel, Eltit dramatizes voice, gender, and power in the relationship among mother, son, and father...read more

Coming of age during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, Carmen struggles to overcome the social isolation and guilt imposed upon her by her family, developing through her budding sexuality a powerful resistance against their domestic control. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Chile's prize-winning novel of rebellious defiance in revolutionary prose--a feminist triumph of Joycean stature.

'Eltit's Vaca sagrada (see HLAS 54:4047), an intense narrative of erotic desire set against the backdrop of political repression in Chile, treats themes of sexual violence, power relationships, the domination of women, and female fantasy. Well translated by Hopkinson. However, this first translation of an Eltit novel includes no locating materials beyond a very short author's biography on the back flap'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

'Gerdes' brief but informative introduction makes clear that he has been a sensitive reader of El cuarto mundo. The two narrators, although twins - one male, one female, tell different tales and use language very differently. Translation is competent, but Gerdes' own language lacks the dynamic energy of Eltit's, perhaps because he follows the Spanish structures so closely'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

'Gerdes' brief but informative introduction makes clear that he has been a sensitive reader of El cuarto mundo. The two narrators, although twins - one male, one female, tell different tales and use language very differently. Translation is competent, but Gerdes' own language lacks the dynamic energy of Eltit's, perhaps because he follows the Spanish structures so closely'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/