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Prolific drama explores fragility of justice.

If you appreciate plays that confront heavy themes with masterful tension, "Death and the Maiden" might just clasp onto your consciousness and not let go. The starkness of its setting—a lone house after a dictatorship's fall—mirrors the internal desolation of its characters. As the past meets present in a twist of fate, the story peels back layers of trauma with dialogue so potent, it'll haunt you long after the curtain falls in your mind.

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ISBN: 9780140246841
Authors: Ariel Dorfman
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 1994-12-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.97
(rated by 5372 readers)

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“Suspenseful, riveting . . . Achieves a universality that is movingly personal.” — The New York TimesThe explosively provocative, award-winning drama set in a country that has just emerged from a totalitarian dictatorshipGerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man—the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before.Relentlessly paced and filled with lethal surprises, Death and the Maiden is an inquest into the darker side of humanity—one in which everyone is implicated and justice itself comes to seem like a fragile, perhaps ambiguous invention.
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Prolific drama explores fragility of justice.

If you appreciate plays that confront heavy themes with masterful tension, "Death and the Maiden" might just clasp onto your consciousness and not let go. The starkness of its setting—a lone house after a dictatorship's fall—mirrors the internal desolation of its characters. As the past meets present in a twist of fate, the story peels back layers of trauma with dialogue so potent, it'll haunt you long after the curtain falls in your mind.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.