Jose Donoso has created a hauntingly beautiful novel of contemporary Chile and the human condition. Curfew takes place during a twenty-four-hour period in January 1985.
Jose Donoso was born in 1924 in Santiago, Chile. He has been awarded the Chile-Italia Prize for journalism and Santiago's Municipal Prize for short stories. He received the William Faulkner Foundation Prize in 1962 for 'Coronation', the first of his novels to be published in the United States. His other books include 'The Obscene Bird of the Night' and 'A House in the Country'. Translated from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam.
