A review by tommooney
The Shadow of What We Were by Luis Sepúlveda

3.0

THE SHADOW OF WHAT WE WERE by Luis Sepulveda. This is a touching and comic tribute to the leftists exiled under Pinochet in Chile. Four ageing communists return from exile and meet up for the first time in nearly two decades. They have beem brought together by 'the specialist', a fellow dissenter who has a plan for one final raid on the regime. It is fun, satirical and nicely written. Though you do need a decent understanding of Chilean politics to get it all (I know a little but a fair bit of it needed Googling or simply went over my head).