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Translated by Hardie St. Martin & Leonard Mades, revised by Megan McDowell
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The unabridged, centennial edition of Donoso’s terrifying masterpiece, with an introduction by Alejandro Zambra.
Deep in a maze of forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of a crumbling former convent, he is hounded by a coven of ancient women bent on transforming him into the imbunche: a twisted creature with every opening sewn shut. Once, Mudito walked upright and spoke clearly; once he was secretary to one of Chile’s most powerful men, Jerónimo de Azcoitía, and ruled over a palace of monsters built to shield Jerónimo’s deformed son from any idea of beauty.
Narrated in voices that shift and multiply, The Obscene Bird of Night blurs the lines between master and servant, rich and poor, reality and nightmare. Megan McDowell has revised the classic translation and restored nearly twenty pages cut from the 1972 edition.
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