Felipe sees bodies in every corner of Santiago, and seeks to match their numbers with the official death toll, arriving at a perfect number with no survivors. As for "Iquila" and "Paloma", they share the memory of a mysterious and cloudy childhood meeting, and a friendship that linked the parents of one of them with the parents of the other, in the past.
The three embark on an unexpected journey to recover the body of Paloma's mother, after she was stuck in Argentina due to volcanic ash.
Through a different and new narrative, Alia Trabuco Theran, in her novel that was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019, tells us about the past that has not passed, about the dark family legacy of the children of those who lived under the Pinochet dictatorship, and about confronting the pain that extends across generations.
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Man in general, and throughout his history, old and new, has always needed to believe in religious, mental, and cultural beliefs and convictions, and at the same time he does not imagine himself outside of these beliefs and convictions or detached from them, as they provide him with psychological and emotional reassurance, and also provide him with protection from himself, which may behave in... Sometimes there are bumpy paths, sharp switchbacks, potential uncertainties, or unknown areas.
Therefore, we cannot strip others of their religious beliefs, whether divine or man-made, because interests have converged between states and peoples in many aspects of life and because freedom of religious belief must remain a private matter for the individual alone, and one of his most sacred human, civil and religious rights in general. Therefore, in my research, I tried to list or present the religious beliefs of the peoples of the world and their laws as they are in their concepts, without fanaticism or bias.
I do not know if what I am going to narrate has happened before, or if it is happening today, this hour, now, this moment. Or will it happen later, tomorrow or the next day, very soon or very far away? But, I know, it always happens. where? In the world, here, there and everywhere, but what matters to me is that it is happening here in this place, my country, and in the city that I could not leave, for countless reasons. The city that, I repeat, I cannot die away from, nor can I live away from it. with whom? With me, it is the first answer, because it is known about me that I only write about myself, or something that happened with another person I know well, or perhaps with a person I know briefly, or with a person I created from a mixture of people, or a person I made up completely. However, as a technical solution to this dilemma, I see that this time, it happened to you specifically, you who are now reading what I write and suspect that it is about you, then little by little you will know that it is about you. Because literally, or almost literally, it happened to you, and it applies to you only.
تدعونا عملية الحضور إلى أن نطمح إلى "استجابة عاطفية واعية" باعتبارها أسلوب حياة. إنّ قراءة وتطبيق الإجراءات البسيطة الموجودة في هذا الكتاب تجعل من المُمكن لأيّ شخص .
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