Alia Trabucco Zerán

The Remainder

Übersetzer: Hughes, Sophie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Felipe, Iquela, and Paloma, young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile's dictatorship. 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. Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Coffee House Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9781566895507
• ISBN-10: 1566895502
• Artikelnr.: 53485750

Autorenporträt

Alia Trabucco Zerán 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 País 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 of Las 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.