Coming of age during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, Carmen struggles to overcome the social isolation and guilt imposed upon her by her family, developing through her budding sexuality a powerful resistance against their domestic control.
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A chilling and multi-layered exploration of incest, repression, and regret that slowly reveals the heartbreak of the Chilean dictatorship. -- Ariel Dorfman
Sparely but evocatively written, and pulsing with life...offers a multi-layered microcosm of this terrible period in Chilean History. -- UK Metro
Ana MarÃa del RÃo was born in 1948. She studied literature at the Catholic University of Chile, and was a graduate student in Latin American Literature at Rice University and the University of Pittsburgh.
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