![]() ![]() "The novel belongs to our parents," he says, understanding that his childhood experience of terrorism was vicarious, diluted by his infancy. Ways of Going Home, Zambra's third novel, is both a literary and meta-literary foray into Chile's troubled past by a writer who lived during the Pinochet regime but who doesn't consider himself one of its primary victims. ![]() Until, that is, the new generation of Chilean writers, to which Alejandro Zambra belongs. ![]() Novels about this phase in Chile's history have been similarly unforthcoming. Could this reflect Chile's reticent national temperament? Hungover from a violent past, Chileans have remained a quieter breed than the stereotypical Latin American and conversations about the former dictator continued to be conducted largely in the private sphere for years after his 1990 departure. I nternationally acclaimed Chilean writing about the Pinochet regime has been relatively elusive, with the obvious exception of Isabel Allende. ![]()
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