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Book SynopsisJosé Donoso was the leading Chilean representative of the Latin American Boom of the sixties and seventies that included Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Manuel Puig, among others. Written as a draft in 1973, set aside, and forgotten, The Lizard's Tale was discovered among Donoso's papers at Princeton University by his daughter after his death. Edited for publication by critic and poet Julio Ortega, it was published posthumously in Spanish under the title Lagartija sin cola in 2007. Suzanne Jill Levine, who knew Donoso and translated two of his earlier works, brings the book to an English-language audience for the first time. Defeated and hiding in his Barcelona apartment, painter Antonio Muñoz-Roaclearly Donoso's alter egorelates the story of his flight with Luisa, his cousin, lover, and benefactor, after his scandalous desertion from the Informalist movement (a witty reference to a contemporary Spanish art movement and possibly an allusion to the Boom as well), in
