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2015 Longlist

Ways of Going Home

Translated from the Spanish

ABOUT
THE BOOK

A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality of Pinochet’s regime. Then one night a mysterious girl appears in his neighbourhood and makes a life-changing request.

 

 

 

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Alejandro
Zambra

Alejandro Zambra is the author of My Documents, which was a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and three previous novels: Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees, and Bonsai. His books have been translated into more than ten languages and have received several international prizes. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Harper’s, Tin House, and McSweeney’s, among others. In 2010, he was named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, and he is a 2015–16 Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library. He teaches literature at Diego Portales University, in Santiago, Chile.

Alejandro Zambra is the author of My Documents, which was a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and three previous novels: Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees, and Bonsai. His books have been translated into more than ten languages and have received several international prizes. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Harper’s, Tin House, and McSweeney’s, among others. In 2010, he was named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, and he is a 2015–16 Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library. He teaches literature at Diego Portales University, in Santiago, Chile.

NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

Ways of Going Home is the work of a Chilean author. It deals with a troubled past from the viewpoint of the present.

In 2012 Ways of Going Home received the Chilean National Book Council and Premio Altazor awards, and in 2013 achieved the the Príncipe Claus award. This book has been translated from Spanish into English and French.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
14/01/2014
Country
Chile
Original Language
Spanish
Publisher
Granta Books
Translator
Megan McDowell
Translation
Translated from the Spanish

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