The Remainder (International Edition)
Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching for a way to live on. When the body of Paloma's mother is lost in transit, the three take a hearse and a bottle of pisco up the cordillera for a road trip with a difference.Intense, intelligent, and extraordinarily sensitive to the shape and weight of words, this remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of a pain that stretches across generations.
Alia Trabucco Zerán was born in Chile in 1983. Awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University , she holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies from University College London. La Resta (The Remainder), her debut novel, won the Best Unpublished Literary Work prize from the Chilean Council for the Arts in 2014, and on publication was chosen by El País as one of its top ten debuts of 2015.
