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Remainder
Remainder | Alia Trabucco Zern
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Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile's dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela's childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents' violent militant past. The body of Paloma's mother gets lost in transit, sending the three on a pisco-fueled journey up the cordillera as they confront the pain that stretches across generations.
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Mtroiano
Remainder | Alia Trabucco Zern
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I lost track of my time but here‘s my #24b4extend stack!

Andrew65 Wow! Fantastic! 👏👏👏🙌🍾🥂😍 5y
jb72 Awesome job! 🎉 5y
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Mtroiano
Remainder | Alia Trabucco Zern
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“Off and on: one week there, the next nowhere to be seen, that‘s how my dead began, out of control every other Sunday then two in a row, catching me unawares in the strangest of places: lying at bus stops, on curbs, in parks, hanging from bridges and traffic lights, floating down the Mapocho, they were scattered all over Santiago, those Sunday stiffs, weekly or bimonthly corpses which I totted up methodically...” #firstlinefridays

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Mtroiano
Remainder | Alia Trabucco Zern
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#currentlyreading

Social distancing day 21

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merelybookish
The Remainder | Alia Trabucco Zern
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Trying to squeeze in one last book in August and for the Women in Translation Readathon. #witreadathon

readordierachel Interesting cover! 5y
merelybookish @readordierachel @graywacke Interesting book so far! Chilean. About the aftermath of living in a dictatorship. 5y
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Librarybelle
The Remainder | Alia Trabucco Zern
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Look what arrived today...my door prize from the #24in48 #readathon ! How cool too that it‘s on the shortlist for the Man Booker prize!

MemoirsForMe How cool is that! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5y
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Liberty
The Remainder | Alia Trabucco Zern
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August is Women in Translation Month! This novel was long listed for the Man Booker International Prize. It‘s by Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán and translated by Sophie Hughes. (It‘s important to give the translator credit, too. They work hard!) It comes out here on Tuesday and I hope to read it today, because Pierce from Book Riot told me it‘s “creepy and gorgeous,” which is smack dab in the middle of my wheelhouse.???

Cathythoughts Creepy & gorgeous you say ?!!! Stacked 5y
Cinfhen Love the cover and description 🧡 5y
kbuggle Oh wow, the cover here is beautiful 5y
xyliafromthewoods What a cool picture 😎 5y
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