Curfew

José Donoso

Original title: Desesperanza

earliest edition we have, 1988 Grove Press, 1994 paperback 320 pages

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.

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This book in English

Alfred J. Mac Adam 1 printing we hold · 1989 · Grove Press

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Editions we hold

Curfew edition · 2000 · Transaction Publishers · 430 pages
Curfew paperback · 2000 · Routledge · 430 pages · 9781412812528
Curfew paperback · 1994 · Grove Press · 320 pages
On Curfew paperback · 1989 · Grove Press · 9781555844486
Curfew edition · 1988 · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 310 pages
Curfew edition · Weidenfeld Nicolson · 9781558444805

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