A young, disenfranchised Chilean man tries to work through some deep-rooted family dysfunction in Diego Zuniga's Camanchaca.
The young man travels over the summer with his absent father, and his father's new wife and son, while keeping a too-close tether to his mother back home and dealing with a reproachful grandfather.
Zuniga's novel is slender--most of the chapters are a single page, or even a paragraph--and full of tiny sketches, many of them mournful, some uncomfortable, and some mysterious (including the unexplained fate of a missing uncle).
Finely-wrought prose in an interesting debut. For fans of literate character sketches, and complicated answers to hard questions.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
The young man travels over the summer with his absent father, and his father's new wife and son, while keeping a too-close tether to his mother back home and dealing with a reproachful grandfather.
Zuniga's novel is slender--most of the chapters are a single page, or even a paragraph--and full of tiny sketches, many of them mournful, some uncomfortable, and some mysterious (including the unexplained fate of a missing uncle).
Finely-wrought prose in an interesting debut. For fans of literate character sketches, and complicated answers to hard questions.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Library in Richmond, Indiana and read it quickly.
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