Elena Castedo
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Description
Born in Barcelona, a refugee in France, an exile in Chile and an immigrant in the US. A self-translator, has won prizes for her work in English and in Spanish. See
Books
El teatro chileno de mediados del siglo XX
First in-depth study of stage playwrights in Chile at mid-xxth century.
Paradise
Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his 'uncle' is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts. Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.