by José Donoso · Santillana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420481999
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«Donde van a morir los elefantes» is the novel by Chilean writer José Donoso, published by Santillana in paperback (409 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Gustavo Zuleta, a Chilean literature professor who accepts a post at a small university in the American Midwest. Through his experience, Donoso shows the clashes between the Latin American and American intellectual worlds, and reflects on identity, exile and the search for meaning in an alien environment.
Published in 1995; the cover bears the Alfaguara imprint.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in novels with a university setting and in the encounter between cultures.
José Manuel Donoso Yáñez, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and Spain. Although he stated that he had left Chile in the 1960s for personal reasons, after 1973 his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death in 1996.
