A test of time
The Suicide Museum, Ariel Dorfman, 2023, Other Press, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole
The Suicide Museum, Ariel Dorfman, 2023, Other Press
Has Ariel Dorfman employed a key anniversary of the military coup in Chile as a device to make a loftier point about the fate of humanity?
Has he set his latest novel around this defining episode in his own life because it has grown urgent at the venerable age of 80 and, inevitably, the clock is ticking?