"Reminiscent of the best of Bolano, Borges and Calvino" Guardian A
dazzling novel about the traces we leave, the traces we erase and
the traces we seek to rebuild. In this innovative novel three
losses and three quests are pursued. English writer Aliza Abravanel
tries, in a battle with aphasia, to finish her book. A last
indigenous speaker is confronted with the fading of his culture and
language while an anthropologist struggles to prevent it. And
through the construction of an esoteric theatre of memory, a
survivor of the Guatemalan genocide of the 1970s and '80s seeks to
recover the memories lost after the traumas of war. And behind
these three threads lies the narrator's own story: Julio, a
disillusioned university professor, must try to understand and
complete his friend Aliza's novel, and come to terms with a past he
shared with her but has blanked for thirty years. From the
Guatemalan wilderness to the high Peruvian Amazon, passing through
Nueva Germania, the anti-Semitic commune founded in Paraguay by
Nietzsche's sister, Austral takes us on a long journey south,
following a trail of ecological and cultural destruction to
excavate contemporary xenophobia. Translated from the Spanish by
Megan McDowell
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