The Days of the Rainbow

The Days of the Rainbow
Author: Antonio Skarmeta
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590516281

Nico, the son of a noted Chilean philosophy professor, witnesses his father’s arrest while he is teaching a class. Bettini, the father of Nico’s best friend, is a leftist advertising executive who has been blacklisted and is out of work after having been imprisoned and tortured by Pinochet’s police. This doesn’t stop the ministry of the interior from asking Bettini, who is the best in the business, to come up with a plan for the upcoming referendum designed to say “yes” to Pinochet’s next term. But just hours after he has been approached by the right, the head of the opposition makes him the exact same offer. What is Bettini going to do? Put his life on the line or sacrifice his political convictions? Finally he goes with the left. The next hurdle is finding a slogan that would be approved by the sixteen factions that comprise the opposition and who never agree on anything. Whiskey after whiskey, an idea finally emerges. This is a vivacious tale that examines how advertising and politics come together during the Pinochet regime. But this is also a coming-of-age story where we see through Nico’s experience what it means to grow up in a country where nothing is allowed and almost any move can feel like an earnest act of resistance.

Catalog

Catalog
Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection
Publisher:
Total Pages: 810
Release: 1969
Genre: Latin America
ISBN:

LEV

LEV
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1418
Release: 1999
Genre: Catalogs, Publishers'
ISBN:

The Accordion in the Americas

The Accordion in the Americas
Author: Helena Simonett
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2012-09-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0252037200

This collection considers the accordion and its myriad forms, from the concertina, button accordion, and piano accordion familiar in European and North American music to the exotic-sounding South American bandoneon and the sanfoninha. Capturing the instrument's spread and adaptation to many different cultures in North and South America, contributors illuminate how the accordion factored into power struggles over aesthetic values between elites and working-class people who often were members of immigrant and/or marginalized ethnic communities. Specific histories and cultural contexts discussed include the accordion in Brazil, Argentine tango, accordion traditions in Colombia, cross-border accordion culture between Mexico and Texas, Cajun and Creole identity, working-class culture near Lake Superior, the virtuoso Italian-American and Klezmer accordions, Native American dance music, and American avant-garde.

Clandestine Poems

Clandestine Poems
Author: Roque Dalton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1990
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Dalton was one of the most influential poets and political writers in Latin America. In this book, written just before his assassination, he invents five poets who express their different concerns about the oppressive situation in El Salvador.

A Distant Father

A Distant Father
Author: Antonio Skarmeta
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590516265

From the prize-winning Chilean novelist Antonio Skármeta, author of Il Postino, comes this soulful novella about a son and his estranged father Jacques is a schoolteacher in a small Chilean village, and a French translator for the local paper. He owes his passion for the French language to his Parisian father, Pierre, who, one year before, abruptly returned to France without a word of explanation. Jacques and his mother's sense of abandonment is made more acute by their isolation in this small community where few read or think. While Jacques finds distraction in a crush on his student's older sister, his preoccupation with his father's disappearance continues to haunt him. But there is often more to a story than the torment it causes. This one is about forgiveness and second chances.