Open Door |
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| Author:
| Valenzuela, Luisa |
| Translator:
| Carpentier, Hortense
Lane, Helen
Castello, J. Jorge
Peden, Margaret Sayers
Leland, Christopher
Unger, David |
| Series title: | Masks Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-85242-252-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1992 |
| Publisher: | Serpent's Tail Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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Walk through Luisa Valenzuela's Open Door and into a world both lush and sinister. ?Cat's Eye? is a glittering, fearful story, sinuous like the panther that lurks in the central character's eye, in ?Country Carnival? we see the military-hero turned costumed surrealist arrive at the country carnival to upset the local women. In ?Legend? Jos? Maria and Maria Jos? are unhappy twins in a single, gender-confused body, and ?City of the Unknown? is a journey into the illusion of reality. From...
More DescriptionWalk through Luisa Valenzuela's Open Door and into a world both lush and sinister. ?Cat's Eye? is a glittering, fearful story, sinuous like the panther that lurks in the central character's eye, in ?Country Carnival? we see the military-hero turned costumed surrealist arrive at the country carnival to upset the local women. In ?Legend? Jos? Maria and Maria Jos? are unhappy twins in a single, gender-confused body, and ?City of the Unknown? is a journey into the illusion of reality. From a dusty town in rural Argentina to the caverns of New York, Open Door admits the reader into a world of finely-crafted prose. Her black humour reveals a society dominated by male violence and militarism and shows why Luisa Valenzuela is, in the words of Carlos Fuentes, 'the heiress of Latin American ficition'.