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Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, and human rights activist. From 1970 to 1973, Dorfman was part of the administration of president Salvador Allende. He was forced into exile following the bloody military coup of 1973 in which General Augusto Pinochet came to power. Since 1985 he has taught at Duke University. Since the restoration (1990) of democracy in Chile, he divides his time between Santiago and the United States. Dorfman has written fiction often dealing with the horrors of tyranny and, in later works, the trials of exile including his most famous play, Death and the Maiden. Dorfman, a critic of Pinochet, has written extensively about his extradition case for the Spanish newspaper El Pais and other publications. Ariel Dorfman is the Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Professor of Latin American Studies at Duke University.
“The wildly brilliant Ariel Dorfman has outdone himself with this rivetingly original and mesmerizingly profound supernova of a novel…The Suicide Museum is so many perfect things: a globetrotting mystery, a courageous journey into Chile’s nightmare past, a tender paean to the bonds that keep us human, but above all it’s just about the best book I’ve read in a decade.” —Junot Díaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award–winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao “The Suicide Museum is a memoir, a mystery, a tragedy, a philosophical treatise, a song of homecoming, and a spectacular mix of the real and the imagined. In this novel Ariel Dorfman puts his whole literary life on the page—and what a life it has been! For decades Dorfman has written in defiance of the ordinary. He gets to the very pulse of who we are: the social, the political, the artistic, and beyond. Right down to its moment of last-line grace, The Suicide Museum keeps the essential questions alive and, at the same time, joins us all together.” —Colum McCann, National Book Award–winning author of Let the Great World Spin “A master storyteller uses the devices of fiction to shine a light on the mysteries of real life—and to push ever deeper into everything that haunts him: what a culminating gift from an essential spokesman for humanity and conscience.” —Pico Iyer, national bestselling author of The Half Known Life “At the crossroads of history and memory, the masterful Ariel Dorfman has given us a portrait of a generation that lived under the shadow of Fidel Castro and Che, and then suffered the destruction of the alternate vision of socialism offered by Salvador Allende—a tragedy that haunts us still.” —Alma Guillermoprieto, author of Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution “In this engrossing novel, Ariel Dorfman has found the perfect sweet spot where history, politics, and literary fiction blend. Dorfman, like some of his major characters, operates as an archeologist digging into the remains of recent traumas. Anyone interested in how the past impinges on the present and is transformed into art, should read this book.” —Ian Buruma, author of The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II “I was enthralled by Ariel Dorfman’s The Suicide Museum. I have always loved his writing, loved performing his poetry Last Waltz in Santiago, but this work twisted my heart. To be the expat, the outsider without a home, looking for a way back in is so powerful and lonely. His scrupulous search for the truth holds us all to a very high standard.” —Kathleen Turner, Golden Globe Award–winning actress
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