The nanny and the iceberg
by Ariel Dorfman
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Gabriel McKenzie was conceived one night in October 1967 in Santiago de Chile - exactly when, his mother claims, Che Guevara was being buried hundreds of miles north in Bolivia. The next day, his father, Cristobal, made a wild bet with his best friend, Pablo Baron: Cristobal wagered that he would make love with a woman every night until his fiftieth birthday in 1992, while Pablo bet that by then he would be the most powerful man in Chile.
By 1991, Gabriel is a twenty-three-year-old virgin living in exile in New York. Traumatized by the presence of a Don Juan progenitor in Chile, Gabriel returns home to seek help from his father. But before he can lift the curse on his sex life, he must travel to the South Pole and solve the mystery of who is threatening the iceberg Pablo wants to carve out of Antarctica and tow to Seville to celebrate America's five hundred years.
Will Cristobal make it into the Guinness Book of Records? Will Gabriel fall in love - and into bed? Will Gabriel's ancient nanny, who might be the very last member of a Patagonian tribe, save the family from disaster?
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The nanny and the iceberg
2003, Seven Stories Press
in English
- 1st Seven Stories Press ed.
1583225676 9781583225677
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La Nana y el Iceberg
January 1, 1999, Editorial Seix Barral, S.A.
Paperback
in Spanish
9686941576 9789686941579
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The nanny and the iceberg
1999, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
in English
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0374218986 9780374218980
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Conceived the night of Che Guevara’s burial in 1967, Gabriel McKenzie is inextricably bound up in the history and politics of his native Chile. Twenty-four years on, and still a virgin, Gabriel returns from Manhattan exile to confront his legacy: a Don Juan father and a country preparing for the five-hundredth anniversary of America’s "discovery." Into Gabriel’s quest for manhood and identity enter one iceberg, a faithful if eccentric nanny, and a whole host of fantastical characters.
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