Death and the maiden
By: Ariel Dorfman
Series: Penguin plays
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9780140246841
Copyright date: 1991
Subjects: Drama; Torture victims; Revenge; Women political prisoners
Description: Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man--the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before.--From publisher description.