The Suicide Museum
A Novel

(4.25 stars) The fictional and real Ariel Dorfman was supposed to be with president Salvadore Allende in Chile the fateful day that a coup took his life. Ariel has suffered with guilt ever since and, when contacted by billionaire Joseph Hortha to determine once and for all how Allende died (did he c......more

Credo di non aver mai fatto più fatica a leggere un (bel) libro. Ne ho letto metà (più l'ultimo capitolo)! Una narrazione infinita, spiraliforme, in cui le stesse cose sono ripetute mille e mille volte, dallo stesso "protagonista" (lo stesso autore, un alter-ego di lui, un personaggio fittizio ... ?......more

As a 13 year old I wandered into a matinee of the movie "Missing" which concerns the disappearance of a young American in Chile during the coup that ended in Allende's death and the military dictatorship of Pinochet. Thus began a fascination with Allende (the world's 1st and only Marxist leader to co......more

rounded this up from 3.5 stars to 4 because i think it’s kind of a boy book (as are most historical fiction books written by men, not to make a sweeping generalization). this was a little too long but it was still good, i just don’t know that i’d recommend it to anyone who wasn’t super into latin am......more

To describe Ariel Dorfman’s new novel of ideas is to make it seem like a different book. What makes it special is neither its themes nor its postmodernism, not its focus on Salvador Allende, not its first-person narration, not its way of going back and forth through time. For me, what makes it speci......more