
1998
First Published
4.00
Average Rating
250
Number of Pages
Death and the Maiden is 'a terrifying moral thriller which combines brilliant theatricality with clear thought and fierce compassion' Sunday Times. It ran for a year in the West End, was a hit on Broadway and was filmed by Polanski. Reader, premiered at the Traverse Theater, Edinburgh, is about a censor who discovers that a novel he wishes to ban is describing his own life. Widows, also first produced by the Traverse, is about the men who 'disappear' under totalitarian regimes and about the women who wait.
Avg Rating
4.00
Number of Ratings
28
5 STARS
29%
4 STARS
50%
3 STARS
14%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
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Author

Ariel Dorfman
Author · 27 books
Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.