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W. W. Norton
February 2008
On Sale: February 11, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0393064948
EAN: 9780393064940
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Mystery | Fiction
A story of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist by a
reluctant master thief and his eager young
protégé.
With prisons overflowing in Chile, the
president declares a general amnesty for all nonviolent
criminals. Ángel Santiago, a youth determined to avenge
abuse he received in jail, seeks out the notorious bank
robber Nicolás 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 Skármeta 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.
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