The Nanny and the Iceberg
1999
First Published
3.41
Average Rating
368
Number of Pages
Conceived the night of Che Guevara’s burial in 1967, Gabriel McKenzie is inextricably bound up in the history and politics of his native Chile. Twenty-four years on, and still a virgin, Gabriel returns from Manhattan exile to confront his legacy: a Don Juan father and a country preparing for the five-hundredth anniversary of America’s "discovery." Into Gabriel’s quest for manhood and identity enter one iceberg, a faithful if eccentric nanny, and a whole host of fantastical characters.
Avg Rating
3.41
Number of Ratings
151
5 STARS
17%
4 STARS
30%
3 STARS
38%
2 STARS
10%
1 STARS
6%
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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.
