Acclaimed writer and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman delivers a memoir, tender and merciless, of his life of exile and astonishing change160; On September 11, 1973, the military took power in Chile, and Ariel160;Dorfman, allied to160;deposed president Allende,160;was forced to flee for his life.160;Feeding on Dreams160;is the story of the transformative decades of exile160;that followed.160; Dorfman portrays,160;through visceral scenes160;and160;powerful intellect,160;the personal and political maelstroms underlying160;his migrations from160;Buenos Aires, on the run from160;Pinochet"s death squads,160;to safe houses in160;Paris and Amsterdam,160;and eventually to America, his childhood home. And160;then, 17 years after160;he was forced to leave, there is160;a yearned-for160;return to Chile,160;with an unimaginable outcome.160;160;The toll on160;Dorfman"s wife and two sons; the160;"earthquake of language" that is bilingualism;160;and his eventual questioning of his allegiance to past and160;party--all these crucibles of a life in exile160;are revealed with160;startling160;honesty.160; A passionate160;reminder that "we are all exiles," that we are all "threatened with annihilation if we do not find and celebrate the refuge of common humanity as160;I believe160;I did during my decades of loss and resurrection."