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Series
Private Investigator Heredia novels volume 1
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can't stop chasing the ghosts of the past. This time, they've come to him... Virginia Reyes's brother, an ex-political prisoner of dictator Augusto Pinochet, was killed in an apparent robbery. Yet nothing of value was taken. The...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After years of hard work in a factory outside of Santiago, Chile, Ramón accepts a peculiar job: to look after a Coca-Cola billboard located by the highway. And it doesn't take long for Ramón to make an even more peculiar decision: to make the billboard his new home. Twelve-year-old Miguel is enchanted by his uncle's unusual living arrangement, but the neighborhood is buzzing with gossip, declaring Ramón a madman bringing shame to the community....
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
El enfrentamiento de un hombre con su historia, su clase, su sexualidad. A través de una serie de encuentros con personas que fueron parte de su pasado, el narrador de Los hombres que no fui se enfrenta a su memoria, a sus decisiones y a las derivas que ha tomado su vida, dando paso al retrato de "un mundo de formas bellas, tiránicas e infructuosas, de reglas inculcadas que podían llegar a ser mortales". Con una mirada esclarecedora, conjugando...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile's dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela's childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents' violent militant past. The body of Paloma's mother gets lost in transit, sending the three...
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