In this clinical biography of an entire clan, a family is tied up with bodily obsession. Whilst meditating on the body's instability, its persistent illnesses, and the imminence of loss, each member of the family avoids life's devastations with anxiety and affection, with resentment and violence, guilt, imagination, and with sparks of dark humour. The many misunderstandings that follow, only serve to jump-start the family's nervous system.
Circling through past and present, organs and members, Lina Meruane's insightful, meticulous and electric prose skillfully spins physical universes - cosmic and corporeal - threatened by extinction.
'Meruane is one of the one or two greats in the new generation of Chilean writers who promise to have it all' Roberto Bolano
- ISBN10 1644450550
- ISBN13 9781644450550
- Publish Date 18 May 2021 (first published 29 April 2021)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Graywolf Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 176
- Language English