Ways of Going Home
A Novel
Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middleclass housing development in a suburb 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 Raúl.In the second section, the protagonist is the writer of the story 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 a…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: McDowell, Megan (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4668-2820-9
- EAN: 9781466828209
- Produktnummer: 22467832
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 623 KB
Über den Autor
Alejandro Zambra; Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
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