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Ways of Going Home
Ways of Going Home: A Novel | Alejandro Zambra
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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 Ral. 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 sympathizedto what degree, the author isn't surewith the Pinochet regime. His reflections on the progress of the novel and on his own lifewhich is strikingly similar to the life of his novel's protagonistexpose the raw suture of fiction and reality. Ways of Going Home switches between author and character, past and present, reflecting with melancholy and rage on the history of a nation and on a generation born too latethe generation which, as the author-narrator puts it, learned to read and write while their parents became accomplices or victims. It is the most personal novel to date from Zambra, the most important Chilean author since Roberto Bolao.
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charl08
Ways of Going Home: A Novel | Alejandro Zambra
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Love a bookish list.

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charl08
Ways of Going Home: A Novel | Alejandro Zambra
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Waiting, with book...

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LibrarianChels
Ways of Going Home: A Novel | Alejandro Zambra
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“Now I think the best thing I‘ve done in recent years has been to drink a lot of beer and reread certain books...”

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yasmien88
Formas de volver a casa | Alejandro Zambra
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Slowreading this is perfect on my way to work. Alejandro Zambra really has a way with words ;-)

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yasmien88
Formas de volver a casa | Alejandro Zambra
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Beautiful observations about the act of reading and how we escape in books and stories #currentlyreading

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yasmien88
Formas de volver a casa | Alejandro Zambra
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Time to brush up on my Spanish reading skills! #currentlyreading

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cari_luna
Formas de volver a casa | Alejandro Zambra
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Crossing Lake Champlain with Alejandro Zambra

Simona @cari_luna Beautiful. 8y
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cari_luna
Formas de volver a casa | Alejandro Zambra
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"Ahora pienso que es bueno perder la confianza en el suelo, que es necesario saber que de un momento a otro todo puede venirse abajo."

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cari_luna
Formas de volver a casa | Alejandro Zambra
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The impossible task of winnowing the vacation stack. We'll only be gone 2 weeks. Some of these have to stay behind.

Notafraidofwords I read coming through slaughter in college for a class and I 💗 it. 8y
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Shay
Ways of Going Home: A Novel | Alejandro Zambra
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This book has an intriguing alternating structure that switches between the narrative and the writer, and then blends and echoes as Zambra interrogates the relationship between life and fiction, art and reality. Full review: https://goo.gl/f8lcPA

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Shay
Ways of Going Home: A Novel | Alejandro Zambra
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Participated in Diverse Book Tag, and discovered a hole the size of a continent in my reading history. Time to read some books about Latin America: https:/:goo.gl/5L5aFZ

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Mjk20a
Ways of Going Home: A Novel | Alejandro Zambra
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The initial story deals with fictional characters that another character (Zambra?) is writing. The novel splits between the two narratives and they inform the other.

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