Antonio SkÃ¡rmeta,Katherine Silver
With prisons overflowing in Chile, the president declares a general amnesty for all nonviolent criminals. Ãngel Santiago, a youth determined to avenge abuse he received in jail, seeks out the notorious bank robber NicolÃ¡s Vergara Grey, whose front-page exploits won him a reputation he would rather leave behind. Their plan for an ambitious and daring robbery is complicated by the galvanizing presence of Victoria Ponce, a virtuosic dancer and high-school dropout whose father was a victim of the regime. Praised for his â€œability to place a personal story in the context of a national upheaval and make it warm, funny and universalâ€ (,San Francisco Chronicle,), Antonio SkÃ¡rmeta sets this exuberant love story against the backdrop of the new Chile, free from the Pinochet dictatorship but beholden to the perils of globalization. ,The Dancer and the Thief,, which won Spainâ€™s prestigious Planeta Prize, is a remarkable new novel from one of South Americaâ€™s finest storytellers.
Fiction,Novels,Contemporary,Cultural,Latin American,European Literature,Spanish Literature,Travel,Romance
The Dancer and the Thief