This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics,
ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluctant master thief and his
eager young protege, "conjures...a contemporary Santiago, Chile,
where the memory of Pinochet's reign and the 'disappearing' of
citizens still looms" (Publishers Weekly). With prisons overflowing
in Chile, the president declares a general amnesty for all
nonviolent criminals. Angel Santiago, a youth determined to avenge
abuse he received in jail, seeks out the notorious bank robber
Nicolas 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 "ability to place a personal story in the
context of a national upheaval and make it warm, funny and
universal" (San Francisco Chronicle), Antonio Skarmeta 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 Spain's
prestigious Planeta Prize, is a remarkable new novel from one of
South America's finest storytellers. Reading group guide
included."
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