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In the Distance with You
In the Distance with You | Carla Guelfenbein
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This Chilean literary thriller tells the story of three lives intertwined with that of an enigmatic author, whose character is inspired by the groundbreaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. Vera Sigall, now eighty years old, has lived a mysterious, ascetic life far from the limelight of literary circles. This powerful character has a profound effect on those around her--Daniel, an architect and her neighbor and friend, unhappy in his marriage and career; Emilia, a Franco-Chilean student who travels to Santiago to write a thesis on the elusive Vera; and Horacio, an acclaimed poet with whom Vera had a tumultuous, passionate affair in her youth. As Daniel, Emilia, and Horacio tell their stories, they reconstruct Vera's past, and search for their own identities. Spanning from modern-day Chile to the 1950s, 60s, and through the years of the Pinochet dictatorship, With You at a Distance reveals successive mysteries anddiscoveries like a set of Russian nesting dolls.
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In the Distance with You | Carla Guelfenbein

“In any case, I‘d already learned that in their zeal for generalities, history books, like museums, swallow up the particularities of the men and women who inform them, exalting the identities of only a few. Or—to put it more succinctly—if I want to understand, I always turn to novels and poetry.”

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In the Distance with You | Carla Guelfenbein
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My #fridayreads/#weekendreads is this literary thriller set in Chile with a heroine inspired by Clarice Lispector. The opening line is stunning: "Somewhere on the planet, there was someone responsible for your death."

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