Tag wrote:
has anyone read any Isabelle Allende? as she's due to release a book about the indistinguishable line between the eroticism of good food and sexuality, and i'd quite like to know what her past books are like and am too lazy to read.
She's a chilean writer, forced to live in California after the 1973 golpe. I remember "The House of the spirits" as a very good novel, a family saga reflecting Chilean history and with some points reminding me of Garcia Marquez. BTW, Salvador Allende was the president of Chile, democratically elected and killed during the Pinochet's golpe, obviously supported by the USA. Allende was a socialist and that was enough. Thousands of people were imprisoned, tortured and killed, other forced to exile. I know, thanks to a British friend, that the first page of the "Daily Telegraph" had banner headlines praising gen.Pinochet for his job. We'd better go back to our BandS. Bye, Giuseppe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------