Awards

• Short-listed for Man Booker International 2019 2019
• Winner of Chilean Council for the Arts' Best Unpublished Literary Work Award 2014

Overview

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.

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`The Remainder controls a remarkable range of registers (it is, by turns, lyrical, elegiac, sensual, funny, tragic) ... The author of The Remainder, like her characters, is obsessed with words, those `cracks in language' that house our particular ways of understanding things; thanks, among other things, to the meticulous, obsessive attention to detail of her language, this novel is sure to endure.' Edmundo Paz Soldan, author and professor of Latin American literature at Cornell University`A triumphant debut.' Antonio Skarmeta, El Mercurio `The Remainder redefines the political novel ... The voices in The Remainder are some of the most powerful to have come out of Latin America in the last year.' Barbara Perez, `Granta en Espanol, 5 years later', Instrucciones de Uso `A Chilean road trip reveals new ways to think about historical memory.' Alba Lara, Iowa Literaria `A fundamental book about what it means to mourn the past, about the remainders of a history that refuses to be forgotten. This is the debut we all wish we had written. A spirited, brave, urgent book, capable of weaving the political and the poetic.' Carlos Fonseca `One of the best publications of 2015.' Patricia Espinosa, Las Ultimas Noticias

`The Remainder controls a remarkable range of registers (it is, by turns, lyrical, elegiac, sensual, funny, tragic) ... The author of The Remainder, like her characters, is obsessed with words, those `cracks in language' that house our particular ways of understanding things; thanks, among other things, to the meticulous, obsessive attention to detail of her language, this novel is sure to endure.' Edmundo Paz Soldan, author and professor of Latin American literature at Cornell University ---------- `A triumphant debut.' Antonio Skarmeta, El Mercurio ---------- `The Remainder redefines the political novel ... The voices in The Remainder are some of the most powerful to have come out of Latin America in the last year.' Barbara Perez, `Granta en Espanol, 5 years later', Instrucciones de Uso `A Chilean road trip reveals new ways to think about historical memory.' Alba Lara, Iowa Literaria ---------- `The sharpest, most incisive reprieve from novels dealing with the dictatorship by writers like Bolano, Marin, Cerda y Varas.' Rodrigo Pinto, Saturday supplement of El Mercurio ---------- `One of the best publications of 2015.' Patricia Espinosa, Las Ultimas Noticias

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Alia Trabucco Zern 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 Pas as one of its top ten debuts of 2015.

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