![]() "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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