Dancer and the Thief

Celebrated for his "ability to place a personal story in the context of a national upheaval and make it warm, funny and universal" (San Francisco Chronicle), renowned Chilean novelist Antonio Skármeta delivers here the story of young Ángel Santiago and his beautiful girlfriend Victoria Ponce, a virtuosic dancer and high-school dropout whose father was a victim of the regime. Joining forces with the debonair safecracker Nicolás Vergara Gray, this unlikely trio dreams of escaping an embattled Chile free from the Pinochet dictatorship but not yet free from its shadow. This "powerful, humane" (Publishers Weekly) novel "confirms that [Skármeta] is not only one of the most accomplished Latin American writers of our time, but also probably the most entertaining" (Ariel Dorfman).

Author: Antonio Skarmeta, Antonio Sk Rmeta
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 314
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.52w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780393333671

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/08/2009 pg. 20