The Suicide Museum

Writer Ariel Dorfman urgently needs money—and it’s available from billionaire Joseph Horta. Horta hires him to uncover the truth about the death of Salvador Allende. Bound by gratitude to the late President of Chile and a determined desire to understand what exactly happened during the 1973 coup—murder or suicide—they begin an investigation that will take them through Washington and New York, then to Santiago and Valparaíso, and finally to London.

Along the way they will encounter people you can’t forget: a wedding photographer who can foresee the fate of the future spouses; a policeman tracking the trail of a serial killer who hunted refugees; a revolutionary captured during an attempted assassination of a dictator; and, above all, complicated women who support them for reasons that aren’t immediately explainable.

But in order to move forward, both will have to confront their own pasts—what they would rather not touch—and try to find a way out not only for themselves, but for a world that is running out of strength and suffering losses. What begins as a gripping literary adventure gradually turns into an expansive philosophical story about love and family, courage and exile—and about what we owe to the world, to one another, and to ourselves.