Human Solutions: A Novel

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Chile, 1973. The Human Solutions team (a detective, a psychologist, and an actor) work together to engineer social situations to help their clients with anything they might need - until a case leaves one of them tangled in a cult run by an ex-Nazi with torturous ties to the Pinochet dictatorship. To most people, Javier Gonzalez is an ordinary man.

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"In 1988 Santiago, Chile, a shadowy narrator known only as Javier runs a creepy business known as Human Solutions, which guarantees to make its clients desires come true via the manipulation of others."
Publishers Weekly

"If The Boys From Brazil was written by Paul Auster, you'd have Human Solutions. Prepare for a one-sitting read."
Robert Hough, author of Dr. Brinkley's Tower, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, The Stowaway, and The Culprits

"Avi Silberstein's stunning debut is gripping, disturbing, darkly funny, and impossible to put down. The writing is taut and spare, creating a sharply etched portrait of 1980s Chile. Triumphant."
Carmen Aguirre, author of Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, 2012 winner of Canada Reads
"In 1988 Santiago, Chile, a shadowy narrator known only as Javier runs a creepy business known as Human Solutions, which guarantees to make its clients desires come true via the manipulation of others."
Publishers Weekly

"If The Boys From Brazil was written by Paul Auster, you'd have Human Solutions. Prepare for a one-sitting read."
Robert Hough, author of Dr. Brinkley's Tower, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, The Stowaway, and The Culprits

"Avi Silberstein's stunning debut is gripping, disturbing, darkly funny, and impossible to put down. The writing is taut and spare, creating a sharply etched portrait of 1980s Chile. Triumphant."
Carmen Aguirre, author of Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, 2012 winner of Canada Reads

Author Bio

Avi Silberstein was born in Chile in 1982 and moved to Canada in 2000. His short stories have appeared in publications including the New Quarterly and Grain. He is a librarian in British Columbia, Canada, where he founded the library's bike mobile service and Library While You Wait program--both initiatives designed to bring libraries to the people. This is his first novel.