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Untethered to the past, present, and future, the Disappeared attempt to live meaningful lives. Very strange but interesting.

Very modern Chilean version of a buddy adventure when three young people suffering under the incalculable debt of the past atrocities brought about by the Pinochet regime set out on the road. One of them is looking for the lost casket of her mother. The other two are in search of their own relationship to the uncounted deaths of the past. Plot and character development is not much but writing is wonderful. #Readaroundtheworld #chile

Ash falling, a missing corpse, trippy road trip in a hearse, what‘s not to like? It certainly was never boring.

Thousands of missing loved ones, “disappearedâ€� by Pinochet‘s security forces, haunt subsequent generations of Chileans. In this dizzying, surreal, gritty, funny and heartbreaking novel, a corpse has gone astray when ash prevents planes from landing in Santiago, prompting the trippiest of road trips. I feel forever changed by my journey through this book, #translated by Sophie Hughes.

…I went about gorging on nectar as I picked the city flowerless, snatching dismembered petals, petals that I tore from the sepals & the stamens & the corollas & the anthers & the receptacles, which I left floating in the gutters, there among the tadpoles I abandoned those shredded flowers, white canoes in the muddy water for the tadpoles to paddle with, pistils floating with their ugly bug captains, & there I was, winding my way through Santiago…

[…] and then day broke and I still hadn‘t gathered my thoughts; they were still lost in the night and everybody knows that the daytime thoughts and the nighttime thoughts never find each other again […]

Her Spanish was correct but old-fashioned, the kind you might still hear in parts of Sweden, Berlin, Canada, but which to me sounded hollow, or perhaps hollowed out.

The last installment of my Coffee House Press subscription arrived yesterday with a bonus book tote! 😀

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The first #mbi2019 #manbookerinternational2019 book to blow me away! I could happily see it make the short list and win. I wasn‘t always completely sure what was happening, but the language and characters meant I didn‘t completely care. It was trippy, fairytale-ish and absurdist and I could have read it for double the length. Comparing this to the shape of the ruins, I think I prefer my political novels as dreamy and bizarre as possible.

Happy Sunday everybody! I should finish this one today for the man booker international list, I‘m really loving this one which is a relief after the shape of the ruins.

I‘m at around 5.5 hours for #24b4monday and just starting on my next #manbookerinternational2019 pick! The writing style is amazing so far I‘m so excited.

It‘s a Friday, it feels like spring and I‘m just waiting for my bf at the cinema to see Us which I‘m very excited for. Good evening!

Story is set in the Chile after the fall of Pinochet‘s regime and the focus isn‘t on the direct victims of the dictatorship, but on the second generation, children of those who fought against the repression. I think that this was great idea, to tell the story how dark parts of the history doesn‘t end with a single generation. Story is told through two main characters, which are diametrically opposed to each other in perceiving events around ... 👇

Set in Chile, centers on 3 adult children of ex-miliatants and the return of Paloma bringing her mother's body back from exile for burial. Really this is about the fallout of the regime and growing up in the wake of that violence. Each chapter is told in alternating POV of Felipe and Iquela. Felipe's told in a manic state of single sentence and Iquela more conventional but with an obsessiveness on words.

Long listed for the Booker International

Just got this beaut by Alia Trabucco Zeran in from @coffeehousepress & we‘re so pumped to read it â�¤ï¸�
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