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Clandestine in Chile: Adventures of Miguel Littin (Granta Paperbacks) (Hardcover)

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author), A. Zatz (Translator)
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  • Hardcover: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books / Granta; New edition edition (15 Mar 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140140158
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140140156
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,014,708 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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One of the launch titles for Granta Books by one of South America's bestselling authors. Set in Chile, it is the story of Miguel Litten, a man who changes his own identity and returns to Chile after a gap of 12 years. The author's other books include "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

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4.0 out of 5 stars Bravery, 23 Nov 1998
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This review is from: Clandestine in Chile: Adventures of Miguel Littin (Paperback)
I was much impressed with the bravery of the main character and the chances that he took in being discovered by the Chilean government at the time. Marquez's rendering of the story was heartfelt and well done.
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Moderately entertaining true story ., 26 April 1999
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This review is from: Clandestine in Chile: Adventures of Miguel Littin (Paperback)
This book is written in a curious mix of styles; journalistic, spy-thriller and travelogue, but ultimately fails to satisfy in any of them. He describes a true story, but his perspective is too obviously anti-Pinochet to give a balanced picture of life under the regime, or the related historical events. The protagonist is rather irritatingly foolish and difficult to identify with. Any real tension in the story is defused by the author revealing early on the final outcome. The descriptions of the different places he visits are interesting for someone going to Chile but sometimes detract from the book's impact. Moderately entertaining if you have an interest the country or its history.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Stasi State, 29 Oct 2009
By Luc REYNAERT (Beernem, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clandestine in Chile: Adventures of Miguel Littin (Paperback)
This book tells the extraordinary story of the clandestine return of movie director Miguel Littín to Chile 12 years after the military coup against the democratically elected President Salvador Allende in 1973.
Miguel Littín's life was saved during the coup by a movie buff: `Didn't you direct "El Chacal de Nahualtoro"?'

The tragic scenes of the coup continue to haunt the director: `gangs of men in civilian clothes clubbing President Allende's supporters to death. We also saw a line of prisoners with their backs against a wall and a squad of soldiers pretending they were going to execute them.'

After the coup, Chile's society turned into a fascist State with book burnings (15000 copies of this book were burned by the Chilean authorities on Nov 28 1986, Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda's house was sacked by soldiers who threw his books onto a bonfire), with summary executions, outright killings of opposition militants and spies all over the place; in one word, a Stasi State.

Chile's economy
After the military coup, `within a five-year period more goods were imported than in the previous two hundred years by using dollar credits. But when the time came to pay up, the illusion fell away. Chile's external debt increased to $23 billion, almost six times the debt of the Allende administration.'
Chile's economic `miracle' made a few of the rich much richer and the rest of the Chilean society much poorer.

Free Mason
Salvador Allende was a Free Mason. His grandfather established Chile's first Masonic Lodge. Another member of Salvador Allende's Lodge was Augusto Pinochet. Allende made the terrible mistake to consider Pinochet as a brother, while in fact the latter was a member of an international network of intelligence services. It was his job to keep an eye (and report) on the Lodge's activities.

Salvador Allende's humanistic philosophy, as well as his outstanding statesmanship, continues to be deeply ingrained in the memory of the poblaciones.

G. G. Márquez's book gives a true picture of life under the boots of a fascist dictator.
It is a must read for all historians and for all those who want to understand the world we live in.
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