Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra

Ways of Going Home
Author: Alejandro Zambra
Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
Genre: Literary Fiction, Latin American Literature, Contemporary Fiction
Illustration on title page by Charlotte Strick
Setting: Santiago, Chile
Published January 2013 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe

This is NOT the book cover. Made with Phoster and Percolator Apps.

Date Started: September 16, 2013 | Date Finished: September 18, 2013

Opening lines: Bird, gazing down at the map of Africa that reposed in the showcase with the haughty elegance of a wild deer, stifled a short sigh.

WINNER of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature | Awarded the Shinchosha Literary Prize

This is a post for the Japanese Literature Challenge 7 and January in Japan. Please click on the links to read more about the Japanese Literature Challenge (hosted by Dolce Belleza) and January In Japan (hosted by Tony of Tony’s Reading List).