by José Donoso · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789562390170
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«Conjeturas sobre la memoria de mi tribu» is José Donoso's memoir novel, published by Aguilar Chilena de Ediciones in paperback (284 pages, in Spanish).
José Donoso reconstructs his family's history in Chile from old photographs, childhood rumors and conjectures. Landowners, politicians, intellectuals and nuns populate this fragmentary account, where the gaps in the «historical truth» are illuminated by imagination to explore personal and collective memory.
José Donoso (1924-1996) was a Chilean writer. First edition published in Santiago, Chile, in 1996. The novel belongs to Hispanic American literature.
For readers of José Donoso and Chilean narrative interested in family memory and the reconstruction of the past.
José Manuel Donoso Yáñez, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and Spain. Although he stated that he had left Chile in the 1960s for personal reasons, after 1973 his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death in 1996.
