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And every clue keeps circling back to a man named Boris Real . . .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt least that's how the story--or one of many stories, rather--goes. All of them are told by a journalist narrator, who recounts the mysterious case of the Vivar family from an underground laboratory where he and six other \"subjects\" have taken up a novel-game, writing and exchanging chapters over email, all while waiting for the fear-inducing drug hadón to take its effect, and their uncertain fates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA literary descendant of Roberto Bolaño and Andrés Neuman, Carlos Labbé's Navidad \u0026amp; Matanza is a work of metafiction that not only challenges our perceptions of facts and observations, and of identity and reality, but also of basic human trust.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarlos Labbé\u003c\/b\u003e, one of Granta's \"Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists,\" was born in Chile and is the author of six novels, including \u003ci\u003eNavidad \u0026amp; Matanza\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLocuela\u003c\/i\u003e, and a collection of short stories. In addition to his writings he is a musician, and has released three albums. He is a co-editor at Sangria, a publishing house based in Santiago and Brooklyn, where he translates and runs workshops. He also writes literary essays, the most notable ones on Juan Carlos Onetti, Diamela Eltit and Roberto Bolaño--three writers whose influence can be seen in \u003ci\u003eNavidad \u0026amp; Matanza.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill Vanderhyden\u003c\/b\u003e received an MA in Literary Translation from the University of Rochester. He has translated fiction by Carlos Labbé, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Juan Marsé, Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio, and Elvio Gandolfo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49637799854353,"sku":"GOR006015944","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055766929681,"sku":"NIN9781934824924","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1934824925.jpg?v=1770891293"},{"product_id":"spiritual-choreographies-book-carlos-labbe-9781940953977","title":"Spiritual Choreographies","description":"By blinking his eyes and moving his pupils, a paraplegic man--the onetime vocalist in a famous rock band--composes a kind of anti-biography that is corrected and expanded upon by an unknown editor. Alternating between the vocalist's impressionistic recollections and the editor's \"corrections,\" an asynchronous story emerges, evoking the vocalist's childhood in southern Chile and telling of the rise and fall of the band that he grew up to lead, while hinting at a multiplicity of other narrative possibilities.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49897325920529,"sku":"CIN1940953979VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52756401619217,"sku":"NIN9781940953977","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1940953979.jpg?v=1770894248"},{"product_id":"murmuration-book-carlos-labbe-9781960385017","title":"The Murmuration","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOn the eve of the 1962 World Cup in Chile, a retired sports commentator with a secret ability to influence living beings with his voice encounters one of the directors of the Chilean national team--a feminist with a covert agenda--on an overnight train ride to Santiago. The director convinces the commentator to return to broadcasting in order to call Chile's matches and to utilize his unique vocal power to determine their outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eLater, when Chile is facing off against Brazil in the semifinal match, the plan diverges from one of conventional victory and the narrative bifurcates, simultaneously tracking the action on the field and a startling sequence of events that is unfolding in one of the stadium's luxury boxes, and what initially looks like a story of intrigue and action and an exploration of class warfare, representation, and social justice, emerges as a novel that enacts the notion that art can only transcend through collective creative action. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWithin the world of Carlos Labbé's fiction, this novel can be understood as a continuation and broadening of the political project signaled in his early work and a doubling-down on the formal playfulness and elusive sensibility that characterizes all of his fiction. 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Behind the silence that unites and separates Carlos and Elisa, behind the game that estranges the albino girls, Alicia and Violeta, from the best summer afternoons, behind the destiny of Neutria--a city that disappears with childhood and returns with desire--and behind a literary move­ment that might be the ultimate vanguard while at the same time the greatest falsification, questions arise concerning who truly writes for whom in a novel--the author or the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough an array of voices, overlapping story­lines, a kaleidoscope of literary references, and a delirious prose, Labbé carves out a space for himself among such form-defying Latin American greats as Diamela Eltit, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Jorge Luis Borges.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarlos Labbé\u003c\/b\u003e, one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists,\" was born in Chile and is the author of a collection of short stories and six novels, one of which, \u003ci\u003eNavidad \u0026amp; Matanza\u003c\/i\u003e, is available in English from Open Letter. 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