![]() ![]() Gabriel is conceived in October 1967, just as Che Guevara is being buried. Gabriel writes from Seville, where he is planning to celebrate his father's birthday by blowing up a giant iceberg being displayed by the Chilean government at the World's Fair, and himself, his father, and his father's best friend along with it. Composed as a long suicide note from a young Chilean, Gabriel McKenzie, to an American friend, the novel explores the tensions between post-Pinochet Chile and the ideals of the past. ![]() In his convoluted but highly entertaining new novel, Ariel Dorfman returns to his favorite subject-not sex, as the suggestive cover and buildings-roman format might lead you to believe, but the author's native Chile. The Nanny and the Iceberg, by Ariel Dorfman. The Nanny and the Iceberg." Retrieved from ![]() 2001 Organization of American States 16 May.
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