![]() "It is structurally exquisite," writes The New Yorker. ![]() Ways of Going Home explores this theme by switching between the story of a young boy growing up in the Pinochet years and the story of the writer who is writing the boy's story. ![]() Born two years after the coup that brought down President Salvador Allende and installed Augusto Pinochet, Zambra writes from the perspective of a generation that was learning to read and write as their parents were becoming victims of, or accomplices to, brutal human rights violations. Called "Latin America's new literary star" ( The New Yorker), Alejandro Zambra is a popular writer in his native Chile. ![]()
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