LITERARY FICTION / CONTEMPORARY FICTION

Chiquitita

Pedro Carmona-Alvarez

Translated by Seán Kinsella

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Winner of the Riksmål Society Literature Prize 2023
Shortlisted for the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature 2023

Marisol's country is collapsing. A military coup sends the five-year-old and her family fleeing into the night. They seek shelter in a refugee camp where her parents try to protect her from danger while they await asylum abroad.

Marisol spends her adult life trying to forget her childhood, the aunts and uncles she left behind and the friends whose names she no longer recalls. But when her partner starts to ask about her past, she finds herself confronting the memories that haunt her.

Told through fragments from Marisol's childhood and adult years, Chiquitita is loosely based on Pedro Carmona-Álvarez's own experience of fleeing Chile.

Chiquitita is a tender novel about flight and exile, the passing of time and the experiences that remain with us, refusing erasure.

Translated from the Norwegian by Seán Kinsella.

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