Darwin's Ghosts: A Novel by Ariel Dorfman
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The first novel in 17 years from one of Latin America's greatest living writers, now available in paperback format, explores the colonial past of a young man whose identity is suddenly called into question.
From the author of Death and The Maiden and other works that explore relations of power in the postcolonial world comes the story of a young man plagued by a heritage that raises questions about his identity, legacy and the sordid story of the human zoos that flourished in Europe in the nineteenth century.
On Fitzroy Foster's fourteenth birthday on September 11, 1981, he receives an unexpected and unwelcome gift: when his father snaps his picture with a Polaroid, another person's image appears in the photo. Fitzroy and his childhood sweetheart, Cam, set out on a decade-long journey in search of this stranger's identity--and to reinstate his own--across seas and continents, into the far past and the evil and good that glint in the eyes of the elusive visitor. Seamlessly weaving together fact and fiction and characterized by The Guardian as "more than a Kafkaesque meditation," Dorfman tells the riveting story of a modern life haunted by the past.
REVIEWS
"The novel is much more than a Kafkaesque meditation. It’s a thriller, mystery, ghost story and sea adventure ... Like early Hemingway, Dorfman’s language is absolutely clear and restrained; like Kafka and Auster, the images are potent yet eerily disembodied." —Andrew Madigan, The Guardian
"It is no surprise that a writer with Dorfman’s skill and brilliance would use an act of imagination as a means of inquiry into the very soul of Euro-American culture ... Darwin’s Ghosts is dizzying in the best ways. It is a presence. Open the book and the ghosts manifest. ... A marvel of a novel" -Deena Metzger, TIKKUN
“Dorfman’s work is not just about violence, it’s about compassion and redemption, too.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 978-1609809874
Pages: 304
On Fitzroy Foster's fourteenth birthday on September 11, 1981, he receives an unexpected and unwelcome gift: when his father snaps his picture with a Polaroid, another person's image appears in the photo. Fitzroy and his childhood sweetheart, Cam, set out on a decade-long journey in search of this stranger's identity--and to reinstate his own--across seas and continents, into the far past and the evil and good that glint in the eyes of the elusive visitor. Seamlessly weaving together fact and fiction and characterized by The Guardian as "more than a Kafkaesque meditation," Dorfman tells the riveting story of a modern life haunted by the past.
REVIEWS
"The novel is much more than a Kafkaesque meditation. It’s a thriller, mystery, ghost story and sea adventure ... Like early Hemingway, Dorfman’s language is absolutely clear and restrained; like Kafka and Auster, the images are potent yet eerily disembodied." —Andrew Madigan, The Guardian
"It is no surprise that a writer with Dorfman’s skill and brilliance would use an act of imagination as a means of inquiry into the very soul of Euro-American culture ... Darwin’s Ghosts is dizzying in the best ways. It is a presence. Open the book and the ghosts manifest. ... A marvel of a novel" -Deena Metzger, TIKKUN
“Dorfman’s work is not just about violence, it’s about compassion and redemption, too.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 978-1609809874
Pages: 304