A brilliant novel from "the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction" (Marcela Valdes, The Nation)
Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middle-class housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Raul. In the second section, the protagonist is the writer of the story begun in the first section....
A brilliant novel from "the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction" (Marcela Valdes, The Nation)
-Brilliant, innovative, beautiful--David Markson's Vanishing Point meets Junot Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her.- --The Guardian
-Dazzling...a work of parody, but also of poetry.- --The New York Times Book Review
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE GUARDIAN, AND THE IRISH TIMES -Latin America's new literary star- (The New Yorker), Alejandro Zambra is celebrated around the world for his strikingly original, slyly funny, daringly unconventional fiction. Now, at the height of his powers, Zambra...
-Brilliant, innovative, beautiful--David Markson's Vanishing Point meets Junot Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her.- --The Guardian
