Curfew (Picador Books) by José Donoso

Hardcover Cloth 310 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Picador First edition First printing 1990 with corresponding number line. Handsome black boards and silver embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Top edge spotted. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with the usual shelf wear - a few scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn the event to their advantage: for Pinochet's junta, it represents a chance to assert political authority, while for the intellectuals who had basked in the Nerudas' light, it is an opportunity to grab the spoils of the estate.
Against this backdrop of complex, often conflicting motivations, Donoso… Read More