Title: well executed portrait of a country in turmoil
Review: A football player falls in with a crowd of politically active peers in Allende's Chile. He struts and preens and claims to be above politics until the mad tides of history sweep up all of them. As the country devolves into a nightmare of violence, political assassinations and turmoil his transformation begins.Skarmeta portrays a lovely ensemble of personalities and, without waxing too sentimental, shows how ordinary people's lives are tossed by painful, violent change. A quick read, rewarding.The plot makes more sense if you can do a bit of reading on the Allende overthrow of 1973 as well.
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