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Flowers in the desert : the search for Chile's disappeared = Flores en el desierto : la bâusqueda de los desaparecidos de Chile / Paula Allen ; foreword by Isabel Allende ; afterword by Ariel Dorfman ; with contributions from Patricia Verdugo, Peter Kornbluh, and Mary Helen Spooner.

Title
Flowers in the desert : the search for Chile's disappeared = Flores en el desierto : la bâusqueda de los desaparecidos de Chile / Paula Allen ; foreword by Isabel Allende ; afterword by Ariel Dorfman ; with contributions from Patricia Verdugo, Peter Kornbluh, and Mary Helen Spooner.
Author
Allen, Paula.
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Allende, Isabel
  • Dorfman, Ariel
  • Kornbluh, Peter.
  • Spooner, Mary Helen.
  • Verdugo, Patricia.
Description
xxvii, 151 p. : ill.; 19 x 27cm.
Summary
An account, including stunning photographs, of the search by some of the women of the town of Calama, Chile, for the remains of their loved ones who were murdered and "disappeared" by the Pinochet regime.
Subject
  • Disappeared persons > Chile
  • Political atrocities > Chile
Language (note)
  • Text in English and Spanish.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The women = Las mujeres -- The association = La agrupación -- Where are they? = ¿Dónde Están? -- The grave = La fosa -- The encounter = El encuentro -- After thirty years = Despues de treinta Años -- The aftermath of Pinochet = El ocaso de Pinochet -- The official incident report on Calama = El informe oficial de Calama -- Where is justice? = ¿Dónde está la justicia? -- The loved ones = Los seres queridos.
ISBN
  • 9780813044354 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0813044359 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2012046700