In the Distance with You

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Literary
Cover of the book In the Distance with You by Carla Guelfenbein, Other Press
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Author: Carla Guelfenbein ISBN: 9781590518717
Publisher: Other Press Publication: June 5, 2018
Imprint: Other Press Language: English
Author: Carla Guelfenbein
ISBN: 9781590518717
Publisher: Other Press
Publication: June 5, 2018
Imprint: Other Press
Language: English

ABOUT THIS BOOK...

This Chilean literary thriller tells the story of three lives intertwined with that of an enigmatic author, whose character is inspired by the groundbreaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.

Vera Sigall, now eighty years old, has lived a mysterious, ascetic life far from the limelight of literary circles. This powerful character has a profound effect on those around her—Daniel, an architect and her neighbor and friend, unhappy in his marriage and career; Emilia, a Franco-Chilean student who travels to Santiago to write a thesis on the elusive Vera; and Horacio, an acclaimed poet with whom Vera had a tumultuous, passionate affair in her youth.

As Daniel, Emilia, and Horacio tell their stories, they reconstruct Vera’s past, and search for their own identities. Spanning from modern-day Chile to the 1950s, 60s, and through the years of the Pinochet dictatorship, *With You at a Distance *reveals successive mysteries anddiscoveries like a set of Russian nesting dolls.

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ABOUT THIS BOOK...

This Chilean literary thriller tells the story of three lives intertwined with that of an enigmatic author, whose character is inspired by the groundbreaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.

Vera Sigall, now eighty years old, has lived a mysterious, ascetic life far from the limelight of literary circles. This powerful character has a profound effect on those around her—Daniel, an architect and her neighbor and friend, unhappy in his marriage and career; Emilia, a Franco-Chilean student who travels to Santiago to write a thesis on the elusive Vera; and Horacio, an acclaimed poet with whom Vera had a tumultuous, passionate affair in her youth.

As Daniel, Emilia, and Horacio tell their stories, they reconstruct Vera’s past, and search for their own identities. Spanning from modern-day Chile to the 1950s, 60s, and through the years of the Pinochet dictatorship, *With You at a Distance *reveals successive mysteries anddiscoveries like a set of Russian nesting dolls.

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