Gabriela Ybarra
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize
The Dinner Guest is Gabriela Ybarra's prizewinning literary debut: a singular autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy.
The story goes that in my family there's an extra dinner guest at every meal. He's invisible, but always there. He has a
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