Ways of Going Home
2011 • 160 pages
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Average rating3.7
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Average rating3.7
A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality of Pinochet's regime. Then one night a mysterious girl appears in his neighbourhood and makes a life-changing request.
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While I've read a few too many books lately that go meta with what-is-fiction-what-is-writing and the like (Dhalgren may have cured me of it), this book does it better than most. Given the wonderful language in this book (no surprise Zambra is also a poet), I think I'd read just about anything he put out. The book is wonderful, evoked all sorts of emotions in me, and I'm going to seek out his first two novels.
En nydelig liten chilensk versjon av norsk faction, oppvekstroman og politisk roman som går de småtrise versjonene til norske factionistas en høy gang!
For første gang har jeg hørt om begrepet «secondary characters», de som ikke er hovedpersonene i bøkene. Denne gangen er de disse andre som er de viktigste karakterene.
