Kirjahaku

Chilco is the name of Pascale’s home island. It is also the Mapudungun word for fuchsia: a word that evokes tropical lushness and the deep greenness of the forest. Pascale's partner, Marina, grew up in the vertical slums of Capital City, a place scarred by centuries of colonialism and now the ravages of feckless developers. Every day the couple fear a sinkhole will open up and take with it another poor neighborhood, another raft of refugees from the hinterlands: the indigenous, the poor, who are toiling for an all-consuming machine that is devouring the earth from beneath their feet. When they finally flee the collapsing city to live in Chilco, are they escaping centuries of colonial repression or merely stepping into a twisted new version of it? From her first days in this place Marina can’t avoid the feeling that everything is decaying around her - there is a smell of putrefaction in the air that no one except her can detect; there are seismic rifts that the political cruelties of the times have opened up in her own relationship with Pascale; and she is haunted by insistent memories of her past. In this baroque, tropical jeremiad, the wounds of capitalism and empire inflict themselves on the person and on the land, but linger most devastatingly in language and memory. Indigenous Mapudungun and Quechua words, history, and cosmology form the chorus to this tropical fever dream of life, love, death, and friendship.

A fierce, tender collection of stories about the lives, traumas, and dreams of Mapuche youth in modern-day Chile. The word "pi en" comes from Mapudungun and refers to the dust or the dirt that sticks to the body. In the all-too-real streets of Santiago de Chile, Daniela Catrileo gives us a portrait of a generation in search of itself. In "Warriache," two childhood friends whose lives have been marked by their partMapuche identity and the memories that bind them circle each other at a party. Their dance of delays and inevitable meeting expands into a tale across epochs--one that gives life to the hidden and suppressed experiences of those who live on the margins of other stories. In "Pornomisery," a young girl considers the sexual violence that seems to lurk behind every closed door in her cloistered community and darken every possible route of exit. Pi en is suffused with the humanity of its vivid, complex characters, bringing a side of modern Chile to vibrant life. It also marks the confident next step in the career of a writer poised to become one of the boldest and most uncompromising chroniclers of modern life in Latin American literature.

A near-future tale about love, life, and friendship in a world that’s falling apart.Chilco is the name of Pascale’s home island. It is also the Mapudungun word for fuchsia: a word that evokes tropical lushness, wetness, the deep greenness of the forest. Pascale's partner, Marina, grew up in the vertical slums of Capital City, a place scarred by centuries of colonialism and now the ravages of feckless developers. Every day the couple fear a sinkhole will open up and take with it another poor neighbourhood, another raft of desperate refugees from the hinterlands: the indigenous, the poor, who are toiling for an all-consuming machine that is devouring the earth from beneath their feet. When they finally flee the collapsing city to live in Chilco, are they escaping from the crushing weight of centuries of colonial repression that have eroded indigenous memories, language, and culture, or are they merely stepping into a twisted, lush new version of it? From her first days in this place where she’s supposed to feel safe and at home, Marina can’t avoid the feeling that everything is decaying around her—there is a smell of putrefaction in the air that no one except her can detect; there are seismic rifts that the political cruelties of the times have opened up in her own relationship with Pascale; and she is haunted by insistent memories of her past. In Chilco , Daniela Catrileo’s baroque, tropical jeremiad, the wounds of capitalism and empire inflict themselves on the person and on the land, but linger most devastatingly in language and memory. Indigenous Mapudungun and Quechua words, history, and cosmology form the chorus to this tropical fever dream of life, love, death, and friendship.

"El paisaje que eres siempre ser el paisaje que cargas". Chilco, una novela de amor, rebeld a y amistad.Una pareja sobrevive en el centro de la ciudad Capital, sin sentirla como unhogar. Marina, la narradora, es nieta de una migrante peruana y trabaja en el archivo del Museo de Historia Natural y Social, mientras que Pascale carga la tradici n de su familia lafkenche de la isla de Chilco, al sur del pa s, subsistiendo gracias a trabajos de carpinter a. Su mejor amiga, Leila, tuvo que dejar Hait para probar suerte en este pa s, que avanza a paso firme hacia su destrucci n. La ca da de un edificio en Gran Avenida, los socavones que comienzan a aparecer sin una causa y un movimiento social que se empe a en demolerlo todo son las se ales de una decadencia que parece irreversible, al tiempo que la pareja y su amiga se organizan y luchan por una existencia m s digna. Es en ese momento que Marina y Pascale deciden migrar a Chilco, donde lapromesa de una vida m s plena parece ser posible, lejos de la explotaci n y la violencia colonial de la Capital. Chilco es, entonces, el s mbolo de un espacio en el que las culturas de este continente pueden expresarse.Daniela Catrileo, escritora y fil sofa que suma numerosos reconocimientos por sus libros R o herido, Guerra florida y Pi n, nos entrega una novela dolorosa y bella, de un barroco tan inusual como necesario en Chile. Una suma de culturas, colores y voces que representa con maestr a las complejidades de nuestra realidad actual. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "The landscape you are will always be the landscape you carry.Chilco, a novel of love, rebellion and friendship. A couple survives in the center of the Capital city, without feeling like ahome. Marina, the narrator, is the granddaughter of a Peruvian migrant and works in the archive of the Museum of Natural and Social History, while Pascale carries the tradition of her Lafkenche family from the island of Chilco, in the south of the country, subsisting thanks to work carpentry. Her best friend, Leila, had to leave Haiti to try her luck in this country, which is moving steadily towards its destruction. The fall of a building on Gran Avenida, the sinkholes that begin to appear without a cause and a social movement that is determined to demolish everything are the signs of a decline that seems irreversible, while the couple and their friend organize and fight for a more dignified existence. It was at that moment that Marina and Pascale decided to migrate to Chilco, where theThe promise of a fuller life seems to be possible, far from the exploitation and colonial violence of the Capital. Chilco is, then, the symbol of a space in which the cultures of this continent can express themselves. Daniela Catrileo, a writer and philosopher who has received numerous awards for her books R o herido, Guerra florida and Pi n, gives us a painful and beautiful novel, of a baroque style that is as unusual as it is necessary in Chile. A sum of cultures, colors and voices that masterfully represents the complexities of our current reality.

Det unge par Marina Quispe og Pascale Antilaf, som har baggrund i hver deres oprindelige kultur – quechua og mapuche lafhenche – forsøger at skabe et liv sammen i hovedstaden, hvor de dog må kæmpe for deres kærlighed og mod race- og kønsdiskrimination og manglende muligheder. Mari er datter af en enlig mor og barnebarn af en peruansk kvinde, der i sin tid migrerede til et land, som viser sig at være et diskriminerende, reaktionært klasseopdelt samfund; Pascale er ligeledes mærket af sin personlige historie og sine familietraditioner på øen Chilco. Dialogerne mellem de to er fyldt med sødme, menneskelighed og realisme og afspejler deres kulturelle og sproglige baggrund med ord på quechua og mapuche-folkets mapudungun. Bogen er således også i høj grad en hyldest til Latinamerikas oprindelige sprog og kulturer. Den stærke, men også poetiske fortælling er på sin vis samtidig historien om de fattige, som migrerer til de latinamerikanske storbyer i en søgen efter et bedre liv, hvor alt, de finder, er elendighed, overbefolkning, arbejdsløshed og forfald. I romanen afspejles det af de begivenheder med sammenstyrtede lejlighedskomplekser, jordfaldshuller og protestaktioner, som i sidste ende får Mari og Pascale til at tage deres liv op til genovervejelse og søge tilbage til Pascales rødder på Chilco. Daniela Catrileo er uden tvivl en markant ny stemme i latinamerikansk litteratur.

A fierce, tender collection of stories about the lives, traumas, and dreams of Mapuche youth in modern-day Chile.Jesús, Valeska, Yajaira, and Ale are some of the vivid characters that inhabit the stories told in Piñen , a book that casts an unflinching gaze on the stark margins of urban life. Within its pages unfold the bullet-ridden death of a big shot from the blocks; the fraught, often violated sexuality of women in a displaced community; the unwavering bond between two friends navigating the waria ; the toxicity that seeps through youth and the distances that inevitably come with growing up; and, finally, a fierce declaration of love to the clandestine spirit of a brother. These are young lives that drift through the many peripheries of the city – lives shaped by abortion and abuse, drugs and Britpop – carrying a hope as immense as the injustice that defines their days.The stories that make up Piñen invite the reader into an intimate, often overlooked space – those small, enclosed rooms where the everyday tragedies of the many silently unfold. With brutal realism and lyrical restraint, Daniela Catrileo renders these acts of courage and violence with masterful precision, granting voice and presence to those rarely seen in literature.