Clandestine in Chile : The Adventures of Miguel Littin (Paperback)

from TomMcGreevy

A very peculiar book. Ostensibly a memoir of an exile making an undercover film about life in Chile while Pinochet was in power, the story focuses far more on the exile's quirks than on anything else. Yes peculiar. Goldman's preface contextualizes well.

from charlottem

It doesn't seem as if Gabriel García Márquez wrote this book. That's not to say it isn't a good book. It was a very interesting story, but if you are expecting the beautiful language of a Márquez novel you might be a tad disappointed. The author states that he tried to, "...respect the narrator's...

from FPdC

A narrative of the stay in Chile, in 1985, of the chilean film director Miguel Littín, who was barred from entering his own country by the Pinochet's regime, but nevertheless was able, with the help of chilean underground organizations, to enter and stay for a number of weeks directing three inte...

from arubabookwoman

The first thing I think of when I hear the name Gabriel Garcia Marquez is magical realism, particularly the wonderful One Hundred Years of Solitude. With Clandestine in Chile, Marquez has gone back to his roots as a journalist to write this nonfiction account of a filmmaker's return to Chile to m...

from Ireadthereforeiam

Having lived and travelled the year of 1983 in Chile with my parents and siblings, I grabbed at this book as soon as I saw it was not only about Chile, but that the events in it took place in 1985. A mere year after we had left. People who knew my parents thought they were crazy taking their youn...