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What Remains

What RemainsBy: Brais Lamela

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Product Code: 9781917653008

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Brand:Brais Lamela
Weight .350 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 2 × 12.9 cm

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Between the stifling atmosphere of New York City and the fog-covered Galician mountains, What Remains follows a young student researching the Franco regime’s vast project of forced resettlement. In the 1950s, more than half the inhabitants of the villages in Negueira de Muñiz, Galicia, were driven from their land in a brutal experiment to turn ‘backward’ country people into modern cattle farmers. As the narrator pieces together the mysterious story of a woman who disappeared from her settlement without a trace, he confronts his own temporary status in a foreign land and wonders what it means to call a place home. Intimate and dreamlike, What Remains is a meditation on the ruins of memory and an urgent exploration of identity, colonialism, and resistance. Inventively blending memoir, fiction, anthropology and travel writing, the novel investigates, with surprising intuition, the traces left in the places we inhabit. This happens to me a lot. I often feel as if my life is defined less by the objectives I’ve pursued than by the things that have distracted me along the way, drawn by a place or a person or even the most elusive of all, an idea.

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