Alia Trabucco Zerán

Chileläinen tähti Keltaiseen kirjastoon. Kaksinkertaisen Booker-finalistin veitsenterävä romaani liikaa nähneestä palvelijasta ja murtumispisteessä olevasta perheestä. Estela jätti elämänsä maaseudulla työskennelläkseen varakkaan perheen kotiapulaisena Santiagossa. Seitsemän vuoden ajan Estela pesi heidän pyykkinsä, kuurasi heidän lattioitaan, laittoi heille ruokaa, säilytti heidän salaisuuksiaan, todisti heidän riitojaan, kasvatti heidän tytärtään. Hän kuuli rottien raapivan katossa, näki perheenisän katseet. Hän tiesi kaapissa olevasta myrkystä, aseesta, tyttären kapinasta, äidin kylmyydestä, isän etäisyydestä. Hän näki kaiken. Puhdas on romaani heistä, jotka palvelevat ja joiden työtä tekevät kehot uhrataan vallitsevan yhteiskuntajärjestelmän armottomalle koneistolle. Trabucco Zerán kuvaa taidokkaasti ihmisiä luokkayhteiskunnan ikeessä, missä lempeys poikkeuksetta tukahtuu epäoikeudenmukaisuuden painon alle. Alia Trabucco Zerán (s. 1983) on chileläinen kirjailija, jonka esikoisromaani La resta oli Booker-ehdokas vuonna 2019. Hänen tietokirjansa Las homicidas voitti British Academy Book Prizen ja oli ehdolla National Book Critics Circle Criticism Awardille vuonna 2022. Kirjan elokuva-adaptaatio ilmestyi Netflixillä lokakuussa 2024. Puhtaan elokuvaoikeudet on niin ikään hankkinut Netflix, ja romaanin käännösoikeudet on myyty parillekymmenelle kielelle. Trabucco Zerán asuu Santiagossa.

En nådesløs roman om klasse og raseri. Et barn er dødt, og Estela sidder alene i en fængselscelle og fortæller sin version af historien til de politifolk, hun tror, sidder på den anden side af spejlvæggen. Hun voksede op i det chilenske landskab og flyttede til hovedstaden for at arbejde som barnepige og hushjælp hos en rig familie. Hushjælpens tilsyneladende enkle liv forvandler sig til et repetitivt mareridt af nedværdigelser og vold, samtidig som hun på underlig vis føler en uforklarlig kærlighed til familien, hun tjener hos. Estelas undertrykte følelsesliv bliver, sammen med udmattelse og raseri, til en livsfarlig cocktail.Alia Trabucco Zerán (f. 1983) er en chilensk forfatter. Hun har modtaget flere litterære priser i hjemlandet og blev nomineret til Booker-prisen for hendes første roman. Hun har også modtaget British Academy Book Prize for non-fiktionsværket When Women Kill.

En nådeløs observasjon av klasse og raseri, for deg som liker Leïla Slimani og Jean Genets. Dette er den Booker-nominerte Zérans tredje roman. Her forteller hun historien om hushjelpen Estela som dras mellom arbeidslivet i storbyen og minnene fra oppveksten på landet. Estela avskyr og forakter arbeidsgiverne sine, et ektepar med ekstravagante vaner og ubetydelige problemer, som de liker å gjøre langt større enn de er. Mangelen på respekt for livet hennes preger hverdagen. Likevel kjenner Estela en uforklarlig kjærlighet til familien hun tjener. Romanen begynner med et uomtvistelig faktum - en jente har dødd. Derfra utforsker forfatteren, i en sterk og ubehagelig jeg-fortelling, Estelas liv som hushjelp. Hun viser hvordan hushjelpens tilsynelatende enkle liv blir til et repetitivt mareritt av nedverdigelser og vold. Romanen tar oss med inn i hjemmets mest intime sone, og viser oss hvordan makten manifesterer seg, og hvor usynlig og upåaktet hushjelpen - som lever sammen med familien - er. Estelas undertrykte føleleseliv blir, sammen med utmattelse og raseri, til en livsfarlig cocktail som driver leseren frem til kjernen i romanen - et barns død. Alia Trabucco Zerán er en chilensk forfatter. Hun har mottatt flere litterære priser i hjemlandet og ble nominert til den internasjonale Booker-prisen for sin første roman.

"Den är redan här - årets bästa roman." Katarina Wikars, P1"Alia Trabucco Zerán har skrivit en hypnotisk mardröm." Fernanda Melchor.En liten flicka har dött under märkliga omständigheter och ett hembiträde berättar sin historia inifrån en fängelsecell. Kvinnan heter Estela, och har lämnat sin mor och ett fattigt liv på landsbygden för att bli tjänsteflicka hos en välbärgad familj i Santiago. I bekännelsens form rullas en skakande berättelse upp om alienation och maktlöshet, med förgreningar in i det chilenska klassamhällets mörkaste vrår."Rent hus" är en roman om de som tjänar och med sina arbetande kroppar offras i ett skoningslöst system. På en elektrifierande och beroendeframkallande prosa som hyllats av kritiker och läsare skildrar Alia Trabucco Zerán människor infångade i ett samhällstillstånd där varje försök till ömhet tycks dömt att krossas under ojämlikhetens tyngd.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FEATURED ON NPR FRESH AIR, NPR WEEKEND EDITION, CBS MORNINGS, AND NBC THE TODAY SHOW "A brilliant literary thriller." - NBC The Today Show "A masterclass in suspense ... Extraordinary." - Paula Hawkins "Terrifying, explosive and exhilarating" - Katie Kitamura "A modern masterpiece." -LitHub From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who's seen too much and a family at a breaking point A young girl has died and the family's maid is being interrogated. She must tell the whole story before arriving at the girl's death. Estela came from the countryside, leaving her mother behind, to work for the se or and se ora when their only child was born. They wanted a housemaid: "smart appearance, full time," their ad said. She wanted to make enough money to support her mother and return home. For seven years, Estela cleaned their laundry, wiped their floors, made their meals, kept their secrets, witnessed their fights and frictions, raised their daughter. She heard the rats scrabbling in the ceiling, saw the looks the se or gave the se ora; she knew about the poison in the cabinet, the gun, the daughter's rebellion as she grew up, the mother's coldness, the father's distance. She saw it all. After a series of shocking betrayals and revelations, Estela stops speaking, breaking her silence only now, to tell the story of how it all fell apart. Is this a story of revenge or a confession? Class warfare or a cautionary tale? Building tension with every page, Clean is a gripping, incisive exploration of power, domesticity, and betrayal from an international star at the height of her powers.

THE NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A masterclass in suspense' PAULA HAWKINS'A spellbinding nightmare' FERNANDA MELCHOR'A book of intense power' PHILIPPE SANDS'A compelling book, with a tightly coiled power' PANDORA SYKES

THE NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER AWARD 2025 'A masterclass in suspense' PAULA HAWKINS ‘A spellbinding nightmare’ FERNANDA MELCHOR ‘A book of intense power’ PHILIPPE SANDS 'A compelling book, with a tightly coiled power' PANDORA SYKES The shockingly compulsive new literary thriller from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Remainder. Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances that led to this moment. As we enter into her account of her daily existence, we see how her apparently simple life begins to sour, but would that drive her to the unthinkable? Disturbing and profound, Clean explores domestic work, class and violence, against the backdrop of Chile’s changing political landscape. This is one of the most daring and compelling thrillers in international literature. 'Uncomfortable and provocative … a chilling account' FINANCIAL TIMES 'I hardly paused for breath' ALICE SLATER, author of Death of a Bookseller 'Remarkable, gripping' SARAH BERNSTEIN, author of Study for Obedience 'Terrifying, explosive and exhilarating' KATIE KITAMURA, author of Intimacies ‘Beautifully written and profound’ LUCIE WHITEHOUSE, author of Last Witness Number 1 Bestseller in Sweden

"Den är redan här - årets bästa roman." Katarina Wikars, P1"Alia Trabucco Zerán har skrivit en hypnotisk mardröm." Fernanda Melchor.En liten flicka har dött under märkliga omständigheter och ett hembiträde berättar sin historia inifrån en fängelsecell. Kvinnan heter Estela, och har lämnat sin mor och ett fattigt liv på landsbygden för att bli tjänsteflicka hos en välbärgad familj i Santiago. I bekännelsens form rullas en skakande berättelse upp om alienation och maktlöshet, med förgreningar in i det chilenska klassamhällets mörkaste vrår."Rent hus" är en roman om de som tjänar och med sina arbetande kroppar offras i ett skoningslöst system. På en elektrifierande och beroendeframkallande prosa som hyllats av kritiker och läsare skildrar Alia Trabucco Zerán människor infångade i ett samhällstillstånd där varje försök till ömhet tycks dömt att krossas under ojämlikhetens tyngd.

UNO DE LOS LIBROS M S ESPERADOS DEL A O, EN TRADUCCI N EN TRECE PA SES En la lista de los mejores libros del 2023 de BabeliaGanador del Premiuo Femina 2024 Por la ganadora de los premios Anna Seghers, British Academy y Mejor Novela In dita del Ministerio de las Culturas de Chile, y finalista del Man Booker International «Con la fuerza de una voz ind mita, Alia Trabucco Zer n construye una novela lucid sima, despiadada y brutall . -Federico Falco La vida tiende a ser as una gota, una gota, una gota, una gota, y luego nos preguntamos, perplejos, c mo es que estamos empapados. Estela deja a su madre en el sur para trabajar en la casa de una familia en Santiago de Chile y all se queda los siguientes siete a os, limpiando y criando a una ni a acosada por la ansiedad, cuya muerte conocemos al comienzo de la novela. Como en una tragedia griega, la tensi n crece en cada p gina, con cada personaje o elemento: la perra callejera, las ratas, la confesi n inconfesable del «se or , la aparici n de Carlos, el veneno, la pistola, hasta un desenlace tan poderoso como inevitable. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR, TRANSLATED IN THIRTEEN COUNTRIES. Listed on Babelia's Best Books of 2023Winner of Premio Femina 2024 By the winner of the Anna Seghers and British Academy awards, Best Unpublished Novel by the Cultural Ministry of Chile, and runner up to the Man Booker International prize. "With the strength of an indomitable voice, Alia Trabucco Zer n creates a most lucid novel, ruthless and brutal." --Federico Falco Life tends to be thus--drip, drip, drip, drip, and then we ask ourselves, perplexed, how is it that we are soaked? Estela leaves her mother back in the South to work at a family's home in Santiago de Chile, where she stays for the next seven years, cleaning the house and raising a little girl beset by anxiety, whose death we know of at the beginning of the novel. Like a Greek tragedy, the tension mounts on every page with each character or element: the stray dog, the rats, "Sir's" unspeakable confession, Carlos's arrival, the poison, the gun, even an outcome as powerful as it was inevitable.

La novela finalista del Booker y ganadora del Premio a la Mejor Novela In dita del Ministerio de las Culturas de Chile, por la autora galardonada con los premios Anna Seghers, British Academy y PEN/Heim Translation Fund, y finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award 2022, traducida en 17 pa ses. «Una de las voces m s contundentes de la literatura chilena actual (Babelia). El cuerpo de Ingrid Aguirre, exiliada de la dictadura chilena, se encuentra en un avi n de vuelta a Chile cuando el vuelo es desviado a los Andes argentinos. Su hija Paloma, junto con Iquela y Felipe, amigos de infancia que tambi n son hijos de exmilitantes de la resistencia chilena, deciden cumplir el ltimo deseo de Ingrid: ser enterrada en su pa s. Los tres se embarcan en un viaje inici tico en el que tendr n que enfrentarse a su herencia compartida, que cada uno ha vivido de manera distinta: Felipe desde la obsesi n matem ticapor encontrar el n mero perfecto que le permita comprender el pasado, Iquela desde una contenida racionalidad que apenas puede lidiar con la violencia de su infancia, y Paloma desde un exilio que nunca fue suyo pero marc toda su vida. Tras el xito de Limpia, Lumen recupera el brillante debut literario de Alia Trabucco Zer n: la historia de identidad, poder y memoria que la consagr como una de las voces m s poderosas de la literatura latinoamericana actual. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. Kirkus Best Fiction of 2019.Kirkus Best Fiction in Translation in 2019. Winner of the Best Unpublished Novel Award from the Chilean Ministry of Culture, by the author who has won the Anna Seghers, British Academy, and PEN/Heim Translation Fund awards, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2022. Translated in 17 countries. Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile's dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela's childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents' violent militant past. The body of Paloma's mother gets lost in transit, sending the three on a pisco-fueled journey up the cordillera as they confront the pain that stretches across generations.

Ganador del British Academy Book Prize in 2022 y finalista del National Book Award in Criticism 2022 Cuatro chilenas que, a lo largo del siglo veinte, cometieron impactantes homicidios protagonizan los casos que la escritora Alia Trabucco Zer n investig durante a os para escribir estos ensayos que trazan un relato inquietante y provocador: el de c mo la sociedad, los medios y el poder reaccionaron frente a estas criminales que rompieron, violentamente, con el lugar dom stico y pasivo que se les ten a reservado. Un libro que, con una prosa concisa y reflexiva, cuestiona radicalmente aquello que hemos asumido como normal. «En un momento en que el feminismo se ha tomado las calles para denunciar las dimensiones epid micas de la violencia de g nero, el por qu escribir ahora sobre mujeres asesinas no es una pregunta trivial , se plantea Alia Trabucco Zer n, y la b squeda de una respuesta es justamente lo que subyace en estas p ginas sutiles e inteligentes, en las que las narraciones de los cr menes dialogan con un texto ficcional y, tambi n, con los diarios que la autora llev mientras investigaba y donde quedan planteados los obst culos y dilemas a los que se enfrent al abordar un tema tan inc modo como revelador. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION British Academy Book Prize in 2022 and was a finalist of the National Book Award in Criticism 2022 A genre-bending feminist account of the lives and crimes of four women who committed the double transgression of murder, violating not only criminal law but also the invisible laws of gender. When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zer n offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in order to dissect how all four were both perpetrators of violent acts and victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling challenges the archetype of the woman murderer and reveals another narrative, one as disturbing and provocative as the transgressions themselves: What makes women lash out against the restraints of gendered domesticity, and how do we--readers, viewers, the media, the art world, the political establishment--treat them when they do?

A genre-bending feminist account of the lives and crimes of four women who committed the double transgression of murder, violating not only criminal law but also the invisible laws of gender.When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zer n offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in order to dissect how all four were both perpetrators of violent acts and victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling challenges the archetype of the woman murderer and reveals another narrative, one as disturbing and provocative as the transgressions themselves: What makes women lash out against the restraints of gendered domesticity, and how do we--readers, viewers, the media, the art world, the political establishment--treat them when they do? Expertly intertwining true crime, critical essay, and research diary, International Booker Prize finalist Alia Trabucco Zer n (The Remainder), in a translation by Sophie Hughes, brings an overdue feminist perspective to the study of deviant women.

Choosing as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women over the 20th century, Alia Trabucco Zeran details not only the troubling tales of the murders themselves, but the story of how society, the media and men in power reacted to these killings, painting their perpetrators as femmes fatales or hysterics - evil or out of control.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International PrizeFelipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile's dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela's childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents' violent militant past. The body of Paloma's mother gets lost in transit, sending the three on a pisco-fueled journey up the cordillera as they confront the pain that stretches across generations.

Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching for a way to live on. When the body of Paloma's mother is lost in transit, the three take a hearse and a bottle of pisco up the cordillera for a road trip with a difference.Intense, intelligent, and extraordinarily sensitive to the shape and weight of words, this remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of a pain that stretches across generations.