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Curfew: A Novel

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The author of The Obscene Bird of the Night and "one of the spinal writers of the extraordinary boom in Latin-American fiction" (The New Yorker) evokes the suffocating atmosphere of a country under dictatorship, and its quietly devastating effect on the actions of those who live there, in a zone between documentary-like realism and grotesque absurdity.

Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed...