Ways of Going Home
Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell (Translator),NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 01-08-2013
Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell (Translator),NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 01-08-2013
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781466828209 (146682820X)
Publish date: January 8th 2013
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature
The story here jumps back and forth between the story and an account of its writing. Back and forth between created characters and the voice of the author as he goes about his life, making decisions about how and when to work on the book, what to keep and what to leave. The result is an engaging n...
Ways of Going Home Author: Alejandro Zambra Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell Genre: Literary Fiction, Latin American Literature, Contemporary Fiction Illustration on title page by Charlotte Strick Setting: Santiago, Chile Published January 2013 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux "It's stran...
Briefly, very briefly: I am sold on Zambra.Even though I delayed reading this one and approached it with some reluctance (that damned publisher’s blurb—but I’ll come back to that), my overall sense of the author and his work was reaffirmed, and if I had to describe Zambra’s writing or storytelling i...
Zambra does a masterful job in this novel giving voice of the experiences of a silent group in Chile -- the generation that grew up under Pinochet's rule, living their childhoods in the shadow of a brutal dictatorship. Zambra reveals the uneasy balance between children's worlds of games and school a...
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