Jose Donoso

• Jan-1984
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• Feb-1994
• / Literary
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A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife Gloria are beset by worries, constantly bickering about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the oldest trade in Marrakesh). When Julio's boyhood best friend, now a famous artist,...

• Aug-1994
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These striking novellas are the witty crystallizations of José Donoso's concerns over a lifetime of writing.

• Dec-1995
• / Literary
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With its stark atmosphere, powerful characterizations, and dazzling alterations of perspective in time and gender, Jose Donoso's early masterwork, Hell Has No Limits, anticipates the qualities of better-known works of this Chilean magic-realist such ...

• Jul-2003
• / Literary
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Newly revised and updated by Megan McDowell, and with a new introduction by Alejandro Zambra: at last, the unabridged, centennial edition of Donoso’s terrifying masterpiece sees the light of dayDeep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito ru...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation

José Donoso was the leading Chilean representative of the Latin American “Boom” of the sixties and seventies that included Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas...

• Mar-2025
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Sensual and semi-fantastic, this erotic novel by José Donoso—for the first time in English—is a thrilling and unsettling exploration of identity via sexual desireAll of a sudden, Blanca Arias has it all. The daughter of middling Nica...

• / General Fiction
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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 repre...