The Newberry Library (Venue Partner)
60 W Walton St
312.943.9090
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Saturday Oct 15, 2011 (1pm)
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Directions: The Newberry Library is located at 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL, directly across from Chicago’s famed Washington Square Park and just a few blocks west of Michigan Avenue.
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Author and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivers a memoir that excavates his profound and provocative journey as an exile. 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. Dorfman portrays 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. Then, seventeen years after he was forced to leave, there is a yearned-for return to Chile, with an unimaginable outcome.
