![]() As they wind their way to Mendoza, searching for something that does not belong to them but for which they’ve somehow become guardians, Felipe and Iquela seek to make sense of their inherited memories of violence. When the coffin is lost in transit, the three set out in a borrowed hearse (with plenty of pisco and some pilfered hallucinogens) to retrieve it. It’s raining ash on Santiago when Paloma, a childhood acquaintance, arrives from Germany to repatriate the body of her late Chilean mother. Each is unable to remember the violence and unable to forget it. ![]() In adulthood, Felipe roams the streets of Santiago counting the corpses that appear to him while Iquela dwells in her mother’s memories. The story is narrated by Iquela and Felipe, who grew up under the dictatorship as playmates, both children of leftist militants. ![]() Alia Trabucco Zerán’s debut novel, The Remainder, which is shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in Sophie Hughes’s translation, probes the lingering shadows of Chile’s dictatorship twenty years after the fact. ![]()
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