The story is original not in terms of the road trip plot but in the idea of seeing the dead, counting the dead and making sure that each grave is accounted for and that the dead are not forgotten. 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.īook Worm’s Thoughts: I am not sure how to describe the writing in this book at points it is dreamy, sometimes trippy, occasionally brutal, frequently darkly humorous and often melancholy. When the body of Paloma’s mother gets lost in transit, the three take a hearse and a bottle of pisco up the cordillera for a road trip with a difference. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching for a way to live on. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. 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. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Synopsis from Goodreads: Santiago, Chile. Showcasing and promoting new artistic trends and expressions from different latitudes of the Latin-American culture, FLAWA intends to open a space for self-identifying women with a Latin American background to reclaim their narratives through a variety of artistic expressions.Book 9 from the long list and the first book that all of the panel have read and rated but did we all agree… This show is presented by FLAWA (Festival of Latin American Women in Arts). Literary South is a radio show about Latin-American and Spanish literature on Resonance 104.4. Stubborn Archivist published by Fleet is a novel that mixes poetry and prose, English and Portuguese, while exploring themes of family, identity, depression, politics and sexuality. Yara Rodrigues Fowler, was featured as one of The Observer‘s hottest-tipped debut novelists of 2019.

The Remainder, by Alia Trabucco Zerán was awarded with an English PEN award, won the prize for Best Unpublished Literary Work awarded by the Chilean Council for the Arts in 2014, was chosen by El País as one of its top ten debuts of 2015 and has just been long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize.

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