After the First Death: A Journey through Chile, Time, Mind

by Lake Sagaris

After the First Death is a hard-hitting, controversial look at Chile by award-winning journalist and poet Lake Sagaris. Beginning with one of the world's most brutal military regimes, initiated by the military coup of Augusto Pinochet in 1973, Sagaris travels throughout the country talking to its people. This is an eyewitness account of breakdown and remaking of Chilean society, written in compellingly beautiful prose.

432 pages, Hardcover

First published February 21, 1996

Reviews

[E. L.]

Very well written book. Like most of the things I have read about this time it all seems a little one sided.