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by Cynthia Rimsky (Author)
Una novela carnavalesca que deja fluir el recuerdo deuna exmilitante que luchó en contra de la dictadura en Chile.
«Una muestra más de su fina, precisa e implacable forma de narrar lo vivido. --Carla Grassi, Infobae
La Caldini es acusada por su marido de abandonar el hogar en común. Durante el juicio se involucra con una abogada y un ex-preso político que la llevan de regreso a sus años de juventud, al barrio El Salto y a una lucha contra la dictadura que le parece muy distante, como si la joven de entonces no fuese ella.
"Yet another example of [Rimsky's] elegant, precise and unsparing ability to narrate lived experience." - Carla Grassi, Infobae
La Caldini's husband accuses her of abandoning their home. During her trial, her conversations with an attorney and former political prisoner take her back to her youth, to the El Salto neighborhood, and resistance against dictatorship. It all seems very far away, as though she were no longer the same person. Packed with black humor and absurd characters and episodes, The Future Is a Strange Place is a giddy spin through 1980s Chile, a tumultuous period in the country's history. Rimsky's skillful narrative paints a picture of a woman torn between the political idealism of her youth and the suffocating present. Calling to account the generation that oversaw the political transition, the guarded nature of democracy, political conversion and accommodation, this is an uncomfortable novel crafted with refined ferocity and corrosive subtlety.
Author Biography
Cynthia Rimsky nació Santiago de Chile en 1962. Ha publicado los libros de narrativa Poste restante (2001 y 2010 Chile, 2016 Argentina), La novela de otro (2004), Los perplejos (2009), Ramal (2011) y El futuro es un lugar extraño (Literatura Random House, 2016). Está radicada desde el 2012 en Buenos Aires.
