Carmen's Rust

by Ana María del Río and Michael J. Lazzara

Forced to submit her book to government censors, del R o carefully constructed her critique, setting the novel in Chile during the 1950s with artfully masked references and significant silences. Reminiscent of Kafka and Orwell, Carmen's Rust recounts a claustrophobic domestic nightmare-while tacitly attacking the bourgeois values and murderous control of the regime. Published on the thirtieth anniversary of the overthrow of Salvador Allende and available...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585674869
• ISBN13: 9781585674862
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Length: 91 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.6"