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157 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2016
What are we going to do with Alejandra’s death? Are we going to let it leave us the same as we’d been before? What would he have wanted? What is family for?
Alejandro is going to break his arm here …….. Luckily he’s going to put his arm out, because if he’d fallen on his head, he would have cracked it open. I remembered Ale wearing a cast that was almost up to his shoulder. It was going to itch and he was sometimes going to be proud of it.
Paco is an intelligent boy, a sharp boy. He asks why I’m talking funny.
‘Why are you talking like everything’s in the future?’ he asks me. ‘All that stuff already happened’
I wrote ten pages in one sitting about a guy who got jealous about his brother’s death. The guy felt that his younger brother, by dying first, had robbed him of a privilege. In a way had usurped him. By law, it was older brothers who had to go through everything first, including death. Now the younger brother had become the older one, and there was no going back.
Charco Press focuses on finding outstanding contemporary Latin American literature and bringing it to new readers in the English-speaking world. We aim to act as a cultural and linguistic bridge for you to be able to access a brand new world of fiction that has, until now, been missing from your reading list.And for me, I have to admit that Uruguay has, until now, been missing from list of books read: Eduardo Galeano, Mario Benedetti and Juan Carlos Onetti were all on my literary radar, but have at best sampled them via extracts.
