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Ways of Going Home
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Ways of Going Home

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A brilliant novel from  the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction Alejandro Zambra’s _Ways of Going Home _begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middle-class 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 Raul.

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 sympathized - to what degree, the author isn’t sure - with the Pinochet regime. His reflections on the progress of the novel and on his own life - which is strikingly similar to the life of his novel’s protagonist - expose 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 late - the generation which, as the author-narrator 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 Bolano.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date
14 January 2014
Pages
160
ISBN
9780374534356

A brilliant novel from  the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction Alejandro Zambra’s _Ways of Going Home _begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middle-class 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 Raul.

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 sympathized - to what degree, the author isn’t sure - with the Pinochet regime. His reflections on the progress of the novel and on his own life - which is strikingly similar to the life of his novel’s protagonist - expose 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 late - the generation which, as the author-narrator 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 Bolano.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date
14 January 2014
Pages
160
ISBN
9780374534356