Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of Augusto Pinochet | 
 enlarge | Author: Ariel Dorfman
Publisher: Open Media
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Edition: Seven Stories P
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1583225420
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9781583225424
ASIN: 1583225420
Publication Date: July 1, 2003
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Exiled Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman chronicles the crimes of Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile. He begins with the 1973 U.S.-supported coup that brought Pinochet to power and the devastation it caused in Latin America, and follows the story through Pinochets arrest and detention in London, where he awaits extradition to be tried on charges of genocide.
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 Essential reading December 29, 2003
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is essential reading for anyone wanting to comprehend the crimes of Pinochet and the complicity of the United States government. As is always the case with Dorfman's books, it is beautifully written.
 Exorcising Terror: The incredible unending trial of Augusto August 29, 2003
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is basic to understand from a personal perspective how the chilean people suffered under this animal regime. It shows how all bullies, those who get theirs kicks hurting other human beings become pathetic cowards when they are asked to pay for their acts.
A good synopsis of the trial of Pinochet June 24, 2003
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
One should keep in mind that this is a personal and political view of the Pinochet case. The book is good in the fact that it is a personal account of a man who had friends who are among the disapeared of Chile. If you are interested in a personal account than by this book, however if you are interested in an acccount of Pinochet policies by a book exclusivly about his regime.
 ignore the above review March 4, 2003
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
Although Dorfman's views of the years of dictatorship are driven as much by emotion and opposition as they are by fact, his book about the Pinochet regime and the subsequent human rights trial serves as an interesting document to the chilean experience of dictatorship.
The true extent of the horrors that occured in Chile may never be fully known but Dorfman's book about his experience of the dictatorship and his emotions as a Chilean is an essential document to the Chilean healing process.Some of the passages are extremely well written and the end of the book in particular raises some intersting questions.
There are without question finer books concerning the period, but this is the most emotional work available and Dorfman's lament for Chile is at times very powerful.
 Ja, ja,ja, ja,ja. February 24, 2003
7 out of 46 found this review helpful
Another of Dorfman "Masterpieces". This is the same guy who wrote how Donald Duck was an instrument of American Imperialism. (Yeah, really). Dorfman is one of those Allende-Orphans who still believes everything that happened in Chile was because of this really, really bad man named Pinochet. Him, Allende, the left, the guerillas, did nothing wrong. The book is just a reflection of such a biased view. I'm glad to be the first one reviewing this book. It means few are paying attention to this clown-author.
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