Ways of Going Home
Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell (translation)
Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy. He lives in an undistinguished middle-class housing development in Maipu, a town in the suburbs 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 novel 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 who, 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 Alejandro Zambra, the most important Chilean author since Roberto Bolaño.
From Bookforum
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 who, 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 Alejandro Zambra, the most important Chilean author since Roberto Bolaño.
From Bookforum
Ways of Going Home elevates Zambra to the status of living writers we "simply must read," like Denis Johnson, Lydia Davis, and Mary Gaitskill. His voice is as natural and intimate as Roberto Bolaño's, an obvious but healthy influence, and his subjects—love, memory, death, and guilt—are as big as he can find. —Clancy Martin
Review“Funny, contemplative, and quietly moving, Ways of Going Home pulls off the intoxicating trick of making the world feel smaller in its familiar touchstones found in a time of unique tragedy.”—Chris Barton, TheLos Angeles Times
“[Zambra’s novels] are written with startling talent. And Zambra’s latest novel represents, I think, his deepest achievement . . . 'We go home,' Zambra writes, 'and it
年:
2013
出版社:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Macmillan
语言:
english
页:
160
ISBN 10:
0374286647
ISBN 13:
9780374286644
ISBN:
B008PBYUNO
文件:
EPUB, 225 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2013
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