Jose Donoso has created a hauntingly beautiful novel of contemporary Chile and the human condition. Curfew takes place during a twenty-four-hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away and Chile's various factions rally to turn the event to their advantage. For Pinochet's junta it represents a chance to assert political authority; for the intellectuals who had basked in Neruda's light, it is an opportunity to grab the spoils of the estate.</p>
Biography
Jose Donoso was born in 1924 in Santiago, Chlie. He has been awarded the Chlie-Italia Prize for journalism and Santiago's Municipal Prize for short stories. He received the William Faulkner Foundation Prize in 1962 for 'Coronation', the first of his novels to be published in the United States. His other books include 'The Obscene Bird of the Night' and 'A House in the Country'. Translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam.
