{"product_id":"the-suicide-museum-paperback","title":"The Suicide Museum - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAriel Dorfman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA billionaire Holocaust survivor hires a writer to uncover the truth of Salvador Allende's death, and they must confront their own dark histories to find a path forward--for themselves and for our ravaged planet. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn expansive, engrossing mystery for fans of Gabriel Garc? M疵quez, Margaret Atwood, and Bill McKibben, from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eDeath and the Maiden\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAriel needed money, and Joseph Hortha had it. Bound by gratitude toward the late Chilean president and a persistent need to know whether murder or suicide ended his life during the 1973 coup, the two men embark on an investigation that will take them from Washington DC and New York, to Santiago and Valpara?o, and finally to London. They encounter an unforgettable cast of characters: a wedding photographer who can predict a couple's future; a policeman in pursuit of the serial killer targeting refugees; a revolutionary caught trying to assassinate a dictator; and, above all, the complex women who support them along the way, for their own obscure reasons. \u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Suicide Museum \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the limits of the novelistic genre, expanding it in an unsuspected and exceptional way.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAriel Dorfman \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eDeath and the Maiden\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e, the novels \u003ci\u003eWidows\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKonfidenz\u003c\/i\u003e, and the memoirs \u003ci\u003eHeading South\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Looking North\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFeeding on Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEl Pa?\u003c\/i\u003e, and CNN. His stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIndex on Censorship\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Ang駘ica in Santiago, Chile, and Durham, North Carolina, where he is the Walter Hines Page Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 688\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.34 x 8.74 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764432666912,"sku":"9781635423891","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/afa55636a374ca9dcef75d802e494fed.webp?v=1780248100","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-suicide-museum-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}