Although everything in this imaginative and compelling biography of the martyred Chilean President Salvador Allende is solidly based on fact, it is cast in the form of a novel by the author, who was a close friend and longtime colleague of Allende. 'It is less a novel than a stirring national epic for a land so long at the mercy of outsiders, without proprietary rights over its history. Alegria recaptures it for Chile. Allende's story as told by Alegria is exciting and often inspiring.' The Times Literary Supplement

Although everything in this imaginative and compelling biography of the martyred Chilean President, Salvador Allende, is solidly based on fact, it is cast in the form of a novel by the author, who was a close friend and longtime colleague of Allende.