The Remainder

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 of 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.

Info autore

Alia Trabucco Zerán was born in Chile in 1983. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University and she holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies from University College London. The Remainder, her debut novel, won the prize for Best Unpublished Literary Work awarded by the Chilean Council for the Arts in 2014, and on publication was chosen by El País as one of its top ten debuts of 2015. In 2019, The Remainder was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alia Trabucco Zeran, Alia Trabucco Zerán, Alia Trabucco Zerän, Alia Trabucco Zeran, Alia Trabucco Zerán
• Con la collaborazione di: Sophie Hughes (Traduzione), Hughes Sophie (Traduzione)
• Editore: And Other Stories
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.10.2018
• EAN: 9781911508328
• ISBN: 978-1-911508-32-8
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 200 mm x 16 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Narrativa > Romanzi > Letteratura contemporanea (dal 1945); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Fiction in translation, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary