The best books on Chile: start your reading here

Our literary tour of Chile explores political repression under Pinochet through fact and fantasy, and magic realism’s merging of the two

Allende’s classic, hugely successful family saga is a masterwork of magic-realism. Fusing the personal with the political and fact with fantasy, it tells Chile’s recent history through several generations of the Trueba family, ending with a savage military coup that leads to the death of a president.

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Published on April 08, 2015 23:00
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