A novel by Alia Trabucco Zern, translated by Sophie Hughes
August 6, 20195 x 7.75 240 pages 978-1-56689-550-7
A coffin, a camera, a bottle of pisco: three friends embark on a road trip throughthe Andes to confront a history they can neither remember nor forget.
Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chiles 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 Iquelas childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents violent militant past. The body of Palomas 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.
About the Author
Alia Trabucco Zern was born in Chile in 1983. She holds an MFA in creative writing in Spanish from New York University and a PhD in Latin American Studies from University College London. La Resta (The Remainder) was chosen by El Pas as one of its top ten debuts of 2015 and was granted a Best Literary Work Award from the Chilean Council for the Arts. She is also the author ofLas homicidas, a non-fiction book about women who kill.
Sophie Hughes is an award-winning translator from Spanish. She has been the recipient of an American PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, and in 2018 she was announced as one of the Arts Foundation 25th anniversary fellows for her contribution to the field of literary translation.