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The Remainder

Alia Trabucco Zerán · 2015; English translation 2018 · Chile / Spanish

The children of former militants in Santiago turn a lost body into a road trip through unresolved political memory.

Notes and Misconceptions

It is not standard dictatorship historical fiction.

The book is about aftermath: what political violence does to the next generation's bodies, speech, jokes, and attachments.

Best Path

Political memory, aftermath, road novel

Reading Paths

  • Violence, Memory, Archive, and Place

    Novels and stories where politics enters through bodies, cities, records, weather, and speech.

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