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W. W. Norton
February 2008
On Sale: February 11, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0393064948
EAN: 9780393064940
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A story of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a reluctant master thief and his eager young protΓ©gΓ©.
With prisons overflowing in Chile, the president declares a general amnesty for all nonviolent criminals. Γngel Santiago, a youth determined to avenge abuse he received in jail, seeks out the notorious bank robber NicolΓ‘s 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 SkΓ‘rmeta 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.
 Media BuzzDiane Rehm Show - NPR - February 25, 2008
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