Hailed by Salman Rushdie as "one of the most important voices
coming out of Latin America," the best-selling author and human
rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivers a memoir excavating for the
first time his profound and provocative journey as an exile.
In September 1973, the military took power in
Chile, and Ariel Dorfman, allied to deposed president Salvador
Allende, was forced to flee for his life. Feeding on Dreams is the
story of the transformative decades of exile that followed. Dorfman
portrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, the
personal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations from
Buenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet’s death squads, to safe
houses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, his
childhood home. And then, seventeen years after he was forced to
leave, there is a yearned-for return to Chile, with an unimaginable
outcome. The toll on Dorfman’s wife and two sons, the "earthquake
of language" that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning of
his allegiance to past and party—all these crucibles of a life in
exile are revealed with wry and startling honesty.
Feeding on Dreams is a passionate reminder that
"we are all exiles," that we are all "threatened with annihilation
if we do not find and celebrate the refuge of common humanity," as
Dorfman did during his "decades of loss and resurrection."
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