Chiquitita

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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I’M FRIGHTENED OF MY DREAMS, OF EVERYTHING I DON’T KNOW, BUT ALSO OF EVERYTHING I KNOW. Marisol’s country is collapsing. A military coup sends the five-year-old and her family fleeing into the night. They seek shelter in a refugee camp where her parents try to protect her from danger while they await asylum.Marisol spends her adult life trying to cope with the memories from her childhood, the aunts and uncles she left behind, the friends whose names she no longer recalls. But when her boyfriend wants to learn more about her past, she finds herself confronting the trauma that haunts her.Chiquitita is a tender novel about flight and exile, the passing of time, and the experiences that remain with us, refusing erasure.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-14
Mått129 x 198 x 20 mm
Vikt223 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagAkoya Publishing
ISBN9781836750079
ÖversättareSeán Kinsella, Sean Kinsella

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Pedro Carmona-Alvarez was born in La Serena, Chile. At the age of ten, he and his family fled to Argentina, and the family later moved to Norway.He made his debut with a collection of poetry in 1997, and has since published several award-winning books. The Weather Changed, Summer Came and So On was longlisted for the 2017 Dublin Literary Award.Seán Kinsella is an acclaimed translator of Norwegian literature who has translated several prestigious authors including Karl Ove Knausgaard, Åsne Seierstad and Frode Grytten. His translation of Tore Renberg’s See You Tomorrow was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and his translation of Stig Sæterbakken’s Through the Night was longlisted for Three Percent’s Best Translated Book Award.