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The remainder
Title :
The remainder / Alia Trabucco Zerán ; translated by Sophie Hughes ; with an introduction by Lina Meruane.
Title:
The remainder
Format:
Books
Physical Description:
x, 202 pages ; 20 cm
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
ISBN:
9781566895507
Production / Publication Information:
Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2019.
General Note:
"First published in Spanish as La Resta (Madrid: Demipage, 2014)."
Summary:
"Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner in the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching for a way to live on. When the body of Paloma's mother is lost in transit, the three take a hearse and a bottle of pisco up the cordillera for a road trip with a difference. Intense, intelligent, and extraordinarily sensitive to the shape and weight of words, this remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of a pain that stretches across generations"--
Language:
English
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