The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of Pinochet's regime.
Distant Star
β Scribed by Ducie, Joe
- Publisher
- Cedar Sky Publishing
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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