Hard Rain
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"You don't know us," the writer said. "We're different here in Chile."
Ariel Dorfman's early novel Hard Rain was written in the last chaotic months before the Pinochet bloodbath ended Allende's elected government. The publication of this book to acclaim outside Chile enabled the author to escape into exile.
Here is all the drama and tension of those last months and days, vividly delivered through the eyes and experience of one of Latin America's greatest writers. The tragedy of fifty years ago now comes alive again, in George Shivers' expert English translation.
"That was Chile: all these individual wills, thoughts, journeys, betrayals, acts of generosity, acts of faith, obscenities, evasions;...you'd have to freeze time and bring every life to a halt so that no one would forget what had happened at that precise moment..." - from Hard Rain
George Shivers
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GEORGE SHIVERS is a distinguished Spanish-English and Portuguese English literary translator who was a professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at Washington College for many years and is still engaged in teaching in Maryland. Besides Hard Rain, his translations include several other works by Ariel Dorfman: The Last Song of Manuel Sendero, My House Is on Fire, and Someone Writes to the Future. He has also translated works by the Brazilian writer Márcio Souza. George Shivers wrote many of the Spanish-English translations for articles in the volume Guide to Documentary Sources for the Andes, published by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
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