He was a boy during the dictatorship, and was protected from the worst of it. I read his first two novels in translation in a single. Ways of going home is the first of zambra s novels to be told in the first person. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us.
Nearly every line startles in one way or another, always propelling the story forward toward a complete emotional journey. Zambra s ways of going home, a prizewinner in his native chile, explores the legacy of the pinochet regime. Ways of going home by alejandro zambra book read online. A brilliant novel from the herald of a new wave of chilean fiction marcela valdes, the nationalejandro zambras ways of going home begins with an earthqu. Ways of going home, we use the author to refer to zambra. Ways of going home, zambras third novel, is both a literary and metaliterary foray into chiles troubled past by a writer who lived during the. In ways of going home, zambra depicts childhood experiences of trying to understand the cryptic comments and peculiar actions of adults, in an atmosphere where childrens simple pleasures such as going to watch a soccer match at a municipal stadium bring back memories of terror, incarcerations, and disappeared loved ones for their parents and neighbors.
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Until, that is, the new generation of chilean writers, to which alejandro zambra belongs. The chilean poet and novelist alejandro zambra has swiftly become one of my favorite contemporary writers. Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android. His most recent novel in 20, ways of going home is a fictional novel but draws heavily. A brilliant novel from the herald of a new wave of chilean fiction marcela valdes, the nation alejandro zambras ways of going home begins with an. Ways of going home is compact, intimate, but also sweepingand zambra is amazing. Alejandro zambras ways of going home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nineyearold boy who lives in an undistinguished middleclass housing development in a suburb of santiago, chile. Ways of going home national endowment for the arts. Alejandro zambras ways of going home words without borders.
Ways of going home npr coverage of ways of going home by alejandro zambra and megan mcdowell. The article starts with the striking observation that the writing of alejandro zambra, a distinctive contemporary chilean writer of the middle generation, can be treated both as a string of intriguing experiments sounding various ways of a personal. A novel kindle edition by zambra, alejandro, mcdowell, megan. It was hard for me to understand how someone could live alone. Ways of going home, zambras third novel, is both a. Alejandro andres zambra infantas santiago, chile, b.
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