The Suicide Museum -- Ariel Dorfman, Paperback
Before Ariel and Joseph can resolve a quest full of dangers and enigmas, they must help each other come to terms with guilt and trauma from personal catastrophes hidden deep in the past. What begins as an intriguing literary caper unfolds into a propulsive, philosophical saga about love, family, machismo, fascism, and exile that asks what we owe the world, one another, and ourselves. By boldly mixing fiction and reality, imagination and history, The Suicide Museum explores the limits of the novelistic genre, expanding it in an unsuspected and exceptional way.
Author: Ariel Dorfman
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 09/05/2023
Pages: 688
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.83w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9781635423891
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/14/2023
Shelf Awareness 09/02/2023
About the Author
Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American author whose books in many genres have been published in more than fifty languages and his plays performed in more than one hundred countries. Among his works are the plays Death and the Maiden and Purgatorio, the novels Widows and Konfidenz, and the memoirs Heading South, Looking North and Feeding on Dreams. He writes regularly for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Guardian, El País, and CNN. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, and Index on Censorship, among others. A prominent human rights activist, he worked as cultural advisor to Salvador Allende in the final months before the 1973 military coup, and later spent many years in exile. He lives with his wife Angélica in Santiago, Chile, and Durham, North Carolina, where he is the Walter Hines Page Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University.
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Ariel Dorfman, Autobiographical fiction, Biographical, Chile, Cultural Heritage, Fiction, Fiction - General, Other Press (NY), Paperback, World LiteratureContact form
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