To Die In Berlin
By Carlos CerdaTranslated by Andrea G. Labinger
ISBN: 1-891270-02-8
Price: $16.00
Pages: 256
"Cerda brilliantly juxtaposes the experiences and emotions of several
uprooted Latin Americans thrown together in a tightly controlled
Chilean ghetto supervised by a coldly pragmatic Bureau...The
image of Wagnerâs The Flying Dutchman resonates throughout
their stories as a powerful emblem of their common displacement
and disorientation. A very fine novel."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Cerda combines persuasively
intimate abstractions about love, politics, and life on
earth with authentically three-dimensional characters...[He]
has elegantly portrayed the spiritual conflicts of people
exiled from the sustenance of their native land. FYI: Cerda lived in exile in East Germany for more than a decade. His novel Una casa vacia won three prestigious awards in Chile in 1996."
--Publisher's Weekly