The Dinner Guest
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEThe Dinner
Guest is Gabriela Ybarra's prizewinning literary debut: a singular
autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of
her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of
private pain and public tragedy. The story goes that in my family
there's an extra dinner guest at every meal. He's invisible, but
always there.He has a plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often
he appears, casts his shadow over the table, and erases one of
those present. The first to vanish was my grandfather.In 1977,
three terrorists broke into Gabriela Ybarra's grandfather's home,
and pointed a gun at him in the shower. This was the last time his
family saw him alive, and his kidnapping played out in the press,
culminating in his murder. Ybarra first heard the story when she
was eight, but it was only after her mother's death, years later,
that she felt the need to go deeper and discover more about her
family's past.The Dinner Guest is a novel, with the feel of
documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events - the
very public death of Ybarra's grandfather, and the more private
pain as her mother dies from cancer and Gabriela cares for her.
Devastating yet luminous, the book is an investigation, marking the
arrival of a talented new voice in international fiction.
Výber kníh autorov
Harvill Secker ,
Gabriela Ybarra
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Harvill Secker,
Gabriela Ybarra
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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