Fear in Chile

by Patricia Politzer

Book Overview

"Like a Garc a M rquez novel that has suddenly, horrifyingly, come to real life" (New York Newsday), Fear in Chile is an extraordinary collection of firstperson accounts of life under dictatorship. In... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394564766
• ISBN13: 9780394564760
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

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The journalist Patricia Politzer does a good job at showing that this is not a black and white piece of history, but many colors in between. People interviewed tell their story and explain why they have taken a given stand. Maybe because its isolated geography, Chile has a history that is not as polarized as other neighbouring countries. For example, a regular family would have relatives in the right, the center and the left at the same time, so most chileans knew for a fact that abuses were being made when they were being made for whatever reason. This book shows that sensibility, and has a place in history as well, having helped us chileans to exorcise our fears and get back into democracy.