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Author: Alia Trabucco Zeran ,
Sophie Hughes
Publisher: And Other Stories
Imprint: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9781911508328
ISBN 10: 1911508326
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 04 October 2018
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
`The Remainder controls a remarkable range of registers (it is, by turns, lyrical, elegiac, sensual, funny, tragic) ... The author of The Remainder, like her characters, is obsessed with words, those `cracks in language' that house our particular ways of understanding things; thanks, among other things, to the meticulous, obsessive attention to detail of her language, this novel is sure to endure.' Edmundo Paz Soldan, author and professor of Latin American literature at Cornell University ---------- `A triumphant debut.' Antonio Skarmeta, El Mercurio ---------- `The Remainder redefines the political novel ... The voices in The Remainder are some of the most powerful to have come out of Latin America in the last year.' Barbara Perez, `Granta en Espanol, 5 years later', Instrucciones de Uso `A Chilean road trip reveals new ways to think about historical memory.' Alba Lara, Iowa Literaria ---------- `The sharpest, most incisive reprieve from novels dealing with the dictatorship by writers like Bolano, Marin, Cerda y Varas.' Rodrigo Pinto, Saturday supplement of El Mercurio ---------- `One of the best publications of 2015.' Patricia Espinosa, Las Ultimas Noticias
`The Remainder controls a remarkable range of registers (it is, by turns, lyrical, elegiac, sensual, funny, tragic) ... The author of The Remainder, like her characters, is obsessed with words, those `cracks in language' that house our particular ways of understanding things; thanks, among other things, to the meticulous, obsessive attention to detail of her language, this novel is sure to endure.' Edmundo Paz Soldan, author and professor of Latin American literature at Cornell University`A triumphant debut.' Antonio Skarmeta, El Mercurio `The Remainder redefines the political novel ... The voices in The Remainder are some of the most powerful to have come out of Latin America in the last year.' Barbara Perez, `Granta en Espanol, 5 years later', Instrucciones de Uso `A Chilean road trip reveals new ways to think about historical memory.' Alba Lara, Iowa Literaria `A fundamental book about what it means to mourn the past, about the remainders of a history that refuses to be forgotten. This is the debut we all wish we had written. A spirited, brave, urgent book, capable of weaving the political and the poetic.' Carlos Fonseca `One of the best publications of 2015.' Patricia Espinosa, Las Ultimas Noticias
Author Information
Alia Trabucco Zern was born in Chile in 1983. Awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University , she holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies from University College London. La Resta (The Remainder), her debut novel, won the Best Unpublished Literary Work prize from the Chilean Council for the Arts in 2014, and on publication was chosen by El Pas as one of its top ten debuts of 2015.
