{"product_id":"ways-of-going-home-alejandro-zambra-9780374534356","title":"Ways of Going Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant novel from \"the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction\" (Marcela Valdes, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlejandro Zambra's \u003ci\u003eWays of Going Home \u003c\/i\u003ebegins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middle-class housing development in a suburb of Santiago, Chile. When the neighbors camp out overnight, the protagonist gets his first glimpse of Claudia, an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle Raúl.\u003cbr\u003e In the second section, the protagonist is the writer of the story begun in the first section. His father is a man of few words who claims to be apolitical but who quietly sympathized--to what degree, the author isn't sure--with the Pinochet regime. His reflections on the progress of the novel and on his own life--which is strikingly similar to the life of his novel's protagonist--expose the raw suture of fiction and reality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWays of Going Home\u003c\/i\u003e switches between author and character, past and present, reflecting with melancholy and rage on the history of a nation and on a generation born too late--the generation which, as the author-narrator puts it, learned to read and write while their parents became accomplices or victims. It is the most personal novel to date from Zambra, the most important Chilean author since Roberto Bolaño.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alejandro Zambra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374534357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374534356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.27h x 4.85w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/19\/2014 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014","brand":"Alejandro Zambra","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980909248767,"sku":"9780374534356","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_447cb2e9-e115-4837-b865-a832709e29b8.jpg?v=1683252596","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ways-of-going-home-alejandro-zambra-9780374534356","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}