Ways of Going Home: A Novel,New

Ways of Going Home: A Novel,New

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Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A brilliant novel from 'the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction' (Marcela Valdes, The Nation)Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nineyearold boy who lives in an undistinguished middleclass housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Ral.In the second section, the protagonist is the writer of the story begun in the first section. His father is a man of few words who claims to be apolitical but who quietly sympathizedto what degree, the author isn't surewith the Pinochet regime. His reflections on the progress of the novel and on his own lifewhich is strikingly similar to the life of his novel's protagonistexpose the raw suture of fiction and reality.Ways of Going Home switches between author and character, past and present, reflecting with melancholy and rage on the history of a nation and on a generation born too latethe generation which, as the authornarrator puts it, learned to read and write while their parents became accomplices or victims. It is the most personal novel to date from Zambra, the most important Chilean author since Roberto Bolao.

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