Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
Growing up in 1980s Chile, a young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago with his friends while the adults become slowly entangled in the violence of Pinochet's regime - accomplices and victims of the brutal dictatorship. As the country shudders under authoritarian rule, the boy creates stories of his own to explain the sporadic scenes of violence, the disappearances, and the deafening silence of his mother and father. Until, on the night of the Santiago earthquake, a mysterious girl named Claudia appears among the children and the boy's world is changed forever. Now, as a young man reflecting on the tragedies of his childhood, he must find the courage to confront as an adult what he could not have known as a child, and to untangle Chile's troubled past. As he struggles to begin a novel which will encompass the clash between innocence and complicity, the boundaries between fiction and reality blur, and the beautiful Claudia comes back into his life.
Alejandro Zambra is the author of the poetry collections Bahia inútil and Mudanza, the novels Bonsái, which won the Critics Prize and the National Council Prize for Books for the best novel of the year, La vida privada de los árboles (The Private Lives of Trees) and the book of essays No leer (2010). Ways of Going Home was the winner of the Altazor prize and the Consejo Nacional del Libro prize, both for the best Chilean 2011 novel. He lives in Santiago and is a literature professor at the University Diego Portales.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781847086266 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847086268 |
| Title | Ways of Going Home |
| Author | Alejandro Zambra |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2013-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Premio Las Americas 2012 (UK), Long-listed for Prix Médicis 2012 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |