The Suicide Museum A Novel Ariel Dorfman by Ariel Dorfman 9781635423907, 1635423902 instant download after payment.

An expansive, engrossing mystery for fans of Gabriel García Márquez, Margaret Atwood, & Bill McKibben, from the acclaimed author of Death & the Maiden.

Ariel needed money, & Joseph Hortha had it. Bound by gratitude toward the late Chilean president & 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 & Valparaíso, & 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. 

Before Ariel & Joseph can resolve a quest full of dangers & enigmas, they must help each other come to terms with guilt & 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, & exile that asks what we owe the world, one another, & ourselves. 

By boldly mixing fiction & reality, imagination and history, The Suicide Museum explores the limits of the novelistic genre, expanding it in an unsuspected & exceptional way.

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A writer for adults, Ariel Dorfman is an exile from the Pinochet regime in Chile & the child of holocaust refugees. He has written several plays about repression & dictatorship including Death & the Maiden (filmed by Roman Polanski).