In terms of plot I liked the way the book ended by sorting some things but leaving others still open. Another thing I loved and would have liked to learn more about was the parents revolutionary past and how they all came to have two identities. That said they are all intriguing in their own ways and they are all learning how to deal with things their parents did in the past. I loved the relationship between Paloma and Iquela and Iquela and Felipe. However in terms of character development the book only looks at a narrow slice of their lives a few days maybe a week at most so we don’t really get to see them change and develop. The quest for the perfect zero in terms of human lives was intriguing and as Felipe himself puts it impossible to square. The story is original not in terms of the road trip plot but in the idea of seeing the dead, counting the dead and making sure that each grave is accounted for and that the dead are not forgotten. Intense, intelligent, and extraordinarily sensitive to the shape and weight of words, this remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of a pain that stretches across generations.īook Worm’s Thoughts: I am not sure how to describe the writing in this book at points it is dreamy, sometimes trippy, occasionally brutal, frequently darkly humorous and often melancholy. When the body of Paloma’s mother gets lost in transit, the three take a hearse and a bottle of pisco up the cordillera for a road trip with a difference.
Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching for a way to live on. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Synopsis from Goodreads: Santiago, Chile.
Book 9 from the long list and the first book that all of the panel have read and rated but did we all agree…
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