The Nanny and the Iceberg Book

From the author of Death and the Maiden, comes a complex fiction of ice and identity, sex and exile, elaborated around the true story of the Chilean government's exhibition of an Antarctic iceberg at Expo '92 in Seville. Gabriel's mother, Milagros, took him into exile in New York after the overthrow of the Allende regime. At the age of fifteen, he lies to her about having lost his virginity, so she'll tell him the tale he's been dying to hear: how she and his father met, the truth behind his reputation as a modern-day Don Juan, and what, exactly, Che Guevara has to do with it all. What he learns renders him impotent. Eight years later, still a virgin, Gabriel returns--with Milagros--to Chile, to meet the father he hasn't seen since they went into exile, the father he imagines will instruct him in infallible seduction techniques. But nothing goes according to plan. First he's swept up into a bizarre, extended family comprising relations, friends and the runaway children his father finds and cares for. Then there's the gorgeous Amanda Camila. And the iceberg. And the shadowy figure of the much-loved Nana--the native Indian nanny who cared for Milagros, Gabriel and Amanda Camila--and who may, somehow, be quietly, expertly pulling all the strings-- Lisa GeeRead More