Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey.(Review)

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey by Ariel Dorfman / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998, pp. 282, $24.00

(***) Ariel Dorfman begins his memoir with Sept. 11, 1973, the day he should have died, when a last-minute change kept him from work at the moment that a military junta stormed Chile's presidential palace and killed the occupants. A former cultural advisor under Pres. Salvador Allende, Dorfman lives with the knowledge that he narrowly dodged death and with a vexing riddle: Why was he delivered?

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