History keeps me awake at night
Edwall, Christy Leanne, 1985-2023
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Margit is at the point in life when things should have cohered. She's married, she's got a degree, she's got friends who throw good parties, and yet she's still adrift, moving from one precarious job to the next. One day, a picture of some Mexican students catches her eye in a newspaper. The group of 43 had been ambushed by police in 2014 while travelling on a bus and disappeared without a trace. And so begins Margit's obsession with the 'desaparecidos'. As she heads off down the rabbit holes and cul-de-sacs of Google Maps, her idiosyncratic quest to uncover the truth of what happened begins to eclipse pretty much everything else. From a sharp and singular new literary voice, this is a novel that captures the texture of life in a frictionless city with drop-pin accuracy, while asking: is it possible to recover what is lost without losing oneself?
Main title:
History keeps me awake at night / by Christy Edwall.
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Imprint:
London : Granta Books, 2023.©2023.
Collation:
247 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781783788422 (hardback)
Language:
English
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BRN:
508618
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