- Published: 03/01/2013
- ISBN: 9781847087607
- Granta Books
- 160 pages
Ways of Going Home
Alejandro Zambra
Translated by Megan McDowell
A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality of Pinochet’s regime. Then one night a mysterious girl appears in his neighbourhood and makes a life-changing request.
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Zambra is one of the writers of my generation that I most admire. Never a wasted word. Never a false note. His is an utterly unique voice, one I go back to again and again
Daniel Alarcón, author, Lost City Radio
I've found myself rereading, trying to work out this short novel's intricate structure of gaps and holes
Adam Thirlwell, Books of the Year, New Statesman
Complex yet sophisticated, the novel places Zambra at the spearhead of a new Chilean fiction. [He] weaves some of the continent's most difficult historical themes into an exciting modern art form
Mina Holland, Observer
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