The Suicide Museum - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-American author, born in Argentina, whose award-winning 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 , The Threepenny Review , and Index on Censorship , among others. A prominent human rights activist, he worked as press and cultural advisor to Salvador Allende’s chief of staff 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. Klappentext "In this 'murder mystery memoir," a Dutch billionaire and Holocaust survivor named Joseph Hortha hires writer 'Ariel' to investigate Salvador Allende's mysterious death in the 1973 coup in Chile, in the hopes of discovering whether Allende committed suicide or was murdered. Dorfman takes us along a spectacular journey, from Washington, DC and New York City, to Santiago and Valparaâiso, and finally to London. Along the way, we witness a midnight gravedigging scene, are tracked by stealthy stalkers, and interview sources of varying credibility to discover what transpired at La Moneda. Through this gripping investigation, Joseph and Ariel attempt to redeem themselves, as they are both plagued by guilt. While Joseph grapples with how he has made his fortune unwittingly destroying his beloved planet, Ariel is haunted by the fact that his absence at the coup led to the disappearance of his friend. What begins as a puzzling quest unwinds into a fabulous saga about our duties to the world, one another, and ourselves"-- Leseprobe 1   Even before Joseph Hortha walked into the exorbitant breakfast room of the Hay-Adams hotel in Washington, DC, with his warm and devious smile, I should have suspected he spelled trouble. My wife had warned me not to overly trust that enigmatic billionaire, that we had no idea what dark deeds he might have done to amass such a monstrous fortune, but I charged ahead, full blast anyway, let myself be enchanted by him, bewitched one might say, during that first encounter in 1983, so that when we met a second time seven years later and he proposed that I accompany him on what turned out to be a delirious adventure, I was unable to say no, sorry, I’m sorry, no, I already have far too much stress in my life as it is, thanks, but no. Or if I had been less financially distraught, maybe less obsessed myself with the mystery he wanted me to solve, the murder he wanted someone in Chile to investigate, or maybe if I had known sooner about The Suicide Museum and Hortha’s plans to save the planet, maybe this, maybe that, in a life made of far too many maybes—but none of that seems to matter now. Now that thirty years have passed, the thirty years I promised to remain silent and swore not to tell this story that is Hortha’s story and the story of his many secrets and, of course, my own story and what I was hiding, now that I am finally forcing myself to write the events that changed my life irremediably, the only thing that matters is where to begin, when it all began? At times I trace the origin of my consent, why I accepted to assist Hortha in his mission, trace everything back to my own precarious existence, the day I survived death in Santiago during the coup of 1973, or the day a few ...

Product details

• Authors: Ariel Dorfman
• Publisher: Other press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2023
• EAN: 9781635423891
• ISBN: 978-1-63542-389-1
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 227 mm x 35 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries