
Intense, intelligent and extraordinarily sensitive, Alia Trabucco Zerán’s remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of generational trauma
Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Felipe, Iquela and Paloma, three children of ex-militants, are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on park benches, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square the figures with the official death toll. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. When the body of Paloma’s mother gets lost in transit, the three take a hearse and a handful of pills on a road trip with a difference.
About the Author
Alia Trabucco Zerán was born in Santiago, Chile, in August 1983About the Translator
Born in Surrey, Sophie Hughes is a literary translator from Spanish and Italian