The Lizard's Tail

by Luisa Valenzuela

Book Overview

A political satire edged with fantasy, this book traces the life and rise to political power in an unnamed South American country of a witch doctor--The Master--a character modelled on Lopez Rega, Isabel Peron's Interior Minister.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374189943
• ISBN13: 9780374189945
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

beautiful

a wonderful example of valenzuela's work and a great place to start. her imagery and description sink you into this world even when the circumstances of the plot keep you strangely separate from the characters.

Valenzuela's Argentina is terror personified

This novel is amazing- a deeply disturbing often sadist romp into the netherworld of post-Peronist Argentina where a derranged minister of Juan Peron's second wife (not Evita) runs the show and choke-holds the Argentinian people with his "powers" and his psychosis. Very trippy- fun, in a sick, sick way. Expert craftsmanship and exciting narrative voice. Buy it and read it right away- then pass it on to a friend who can handle it.