![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This novel was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.Ĭontent warnings for animal cruelty, self-harm, reckless drug use. Iquela and Paloma are trapped in the grip of their mothers and their mothers’ stories of militant resistance. Felipe is obsessed with numbers, possessed with a fanatical desperation to make them balance, between the missing and unaccounted for bodies of the dictatorship and the ones dying, being disinterred, being discovered or named. The Remainder is a compelling book about pain, history, and generational trauma. Paloma, a childhood friend and crush of Iquela, comes back to Santiago to bury her mother, but when her mother’s body is lost in transit, the three of them set out to Mendoza to try and find it. Born in Santo Domingo in 1977, Rita Indiana is the grand-niece of the soprano Ivonne Haza and great-great-great-granddaughter of the poet and hero of the Restoration War, Manuel Rodríguez Objío. Felipe and Iquela live in the aftermath of Chile’s dictatorship, burdened with their parents’ trauma, heavy with the weight of what came before them, damaged by their parents’ insistence that they hold it within them - and desperate to shake it off. ![]()
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