Description
In the aftermath of an earthquake, a middle-class boy’s present-day life is jolted by memories that refuse to stay buried. Told through a shifting alternation of past and present, the novel follows his childhood in 1980s Chile, when he is drawn into a dangerous request to spy on a neighbor—an act that quietly reshapes what he believes about loyalty, fear, and complicity. As the story moves between timelines, it becomes a searching meditation on how political violence echoes through ordinary households and how “going home” can mean both returning to a place and confronting what was done there. With Alejandro Zambra’s spare, intimate style and razor-sharp emotional intelligence, the book blends coming-of-age with historical reckoning, exploring memory, guilt, and the fragile work of understanding the self.
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paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Jan 1, 2013
139 pages
ISBN: 9780374286644
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First Published
2013
Language
eng
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