8vo. Pp. [vi], 306. Glossy pictorial wraps.
Signed by Author to title page.
A Rabelaisian, picaresque erotic tale, of a returned exile's quest for manhood and identity amidst Chile's five-hundredth anniversary celebrations of America's "discovery." "Wonderfully peopled with döppelgangers, metafictional turns and doses of myth and magic. It affirms Ariel Dorfman's place, alongside Vargo Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez, as one of the finest voices in contemporary Latin American storytelling." –Dominic Bradbury, The Times