Ariel Dorfman will read from his new memoir, Feeding on Dreams. In September 1973, the military took power in Chile, and Ariel Dorfman, allied to deposed president Salvadore Allende, was forced to flee for his life. Feeding on Dreams is the story of the transformative decades of exile that followed—from 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. Dorfman is a Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, journalist and human rights activist. He teaches at Duke University.
