![]() ![]() ![]() Everywhere he turns there are new corpses to account for and in his frenzy to subtract each death from the likes of the living, he gets lost in the treacherous landscape of his own mind a place where time collapses in on itself in raving run-on sentences. The Remainder, written by Alia Trabucco Zerán and translated by Sophie Hughes (Coffee House Press), follows this eccentric trio living in the aftermath of their parents’ tragedies, setting out on a journey that they hope-each in their own way-will set them free.įelipe, whose father was disappeared by the military junta when he was still a baby, spends most of his time wandering Santiago compulsively counting the dead, obsessed with reconciling a loss that has come to define him. ![]() Now Paloma is back to bury her mother in her homeland, but there’s just one problem, the ash has caused country-wide chaos and the corpse is lost in transit. Their parents were all friends back in the ‘70s, comrades in the resistance movement against Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship, but only Paloma’s family made it out of Chile, fleeing into exile in Berlin. Santiago is sweltering and it’s raining ash when Felipe, Iquela, and Paloma set off through the cordillera in a borrowed hearse. ![]()
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