Navidad And Matanza

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It's the summer of 1999 when the two children of wealthy video game executive Jose Francisco Vivar, Alicia and Bruno, go missing in the beach town of Matanza. Long after their disappearance, the people of Matanza and the adjacent town of Navidad consistently report sightings of Bruno-on the beach, in bars, gambling-while reports on Alicia, however, are next to none. And every clue keeps circling back to a man named Boris Real. At least that's how the story, or one of many stories, rather, goes.

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"A perverse, genius-level Choose Your Own Adventure book. It's up to the reader to pin down characters, plot, and even narrator, but Labb draws us inexorably in. His sleight-of-hand account of multiple disappearances exerts a radioactive narrative force."Natasha Wimmer

Author Bio

Carlos Labb, one of Granta's "Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists," was born in Chile and is the author of six novels, including Navidad & Matanza and Locuela, and a collection of short stories. In addition to his writings he is a musician, and has released three albums. He is a co-editor at Sangria, a publishing house based in Santiago and Brooklyn, where he translates and runs workshops. He also writes literary essays, the most notable ones on Juan Carlos Onetti, Diamela Eltit and Roberto Bolaothree writers whose influence can be seen in Navidad & Matanza. Will Vanderhyden received an MA in Literary Translation from the University of Rochester. He has translated fiction by Carlos Labb, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Juan Mars, Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio, and Elvio Gandolfo.