{"product_id":"what-she-saw-isbn-9781635426205","title":"What She Saw","description":"\u003cb\u003eA breathtaking, nuanced collection of 8 stories about human connection in the face of cruelty, injustice, and uncertainty—from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eDeath and the Maiden \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAllegro\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeparated from his wife on the train to Bourges—where she is set to testify against the police agent who abused her during the Pinochet dictatorship 40 years ago—Rafael agonizes over a damning secret that he may be forced to reveal. Will dredging up the past heal their wounds or open new ones?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeo, a terminally ill man, has decided to end his life, but not before fulfilling his promise to take his wife to visit the place where his late parents met amid the horrors of the Second World War, an almost magical journey that may lead him to change his mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are tales that range wildly—a witchcraft trial during the Hundred Years War, a dispute with undocumented immigrants in the present-day United States, a bullet narrating the experience of a firing squad—from an author who has “create[d] methods of storytelling that enact, not merely record, a political vision, that fuse both the political and literary imaginations” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). A stunning new collection by a legendary writer who again explores how we struggle to keep love alive in even the darkest times.\u003cb\u003eAriel Dorfman \u003c\/b\u003eis a Chilean-American author, born in Argentina, whose award-winning books in many genres have been published in more than fifty languages and his plays performed in more than one hundred countries. Among his works are the plays \u003ci\u003eDeath and the Maiden\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e, the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Suicide Museum\u003c\/i\u003e (Other Press, 2023), \u003ci\u003eAllegro\u003c\/i\u003e (Other Press, 2025), \u003ci\u003eWidows\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKonfidenz \u003c\/i\u003e(Other Press, 2026\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e, and the memoirs \u003ci\u003eHeading South\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Looking North\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFeeding on Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEl País\u003c\/i\u003e, and CNN. His stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIndex on Censorship\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. A prominent human rights activist, he worked as press and cultural advisor to Salvador Allende’s chief of staff in the final months before the 1973 military coup, and later spent many years in exile. He lives with his wife Angélica in Santiago, Chile, and Durham, North Carolina, where he is the Walter Hines Page Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University.","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532225556709,"sku":"NP9781635426205","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/what-she-saw-isbn-9781635426205","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}