Short War
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verve Books
Publishing:30th Jul '26
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 30th July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
It's 1973, and Jewish-American Gabriel Lazris is sixteen years old and desperately in love with Caro Ravest, a Chilean Catholic. When the pair meet at a party in Santiago, something clicks. They fall fast, but with news of growing instability in Chile spreading even faster - partially thanks to Gabriel's Nixon-loving newspaper editor dad - can they stay together amid political uncertainty?
Decades later, Gabriel's American-raised adult daughter Nina heads to Buenos Aires in a last-ditch effort to save her dissertation. She quickly gets sidetracked: first by a sexy professor, then by a controversial book called Guerra Eterna. A document of war and an underground classic, Guerra Eterna destabilises Nina's identity and drags Gabriel's past into the light.
A stellar roller-coaster of a debut -- Megan McDowell, National Book Award winning translator of Samanta Schweblin's Seven Empty Houses
[Short War] opens in Santiago, Chile, with a lovely, eerie assuredness, a moment like an incantation... -- The New York Times
Meyer finds an admirable balance between the significant historical context and the individual characters' drama. This well-honed novel humanizes an enduring nightmare of failed democracy -- Publisher's Weekly
A slow burn that absolutely ignites as the author deftly interweaves history, politics, and family -- Kirkus
Any debut novelist would be gratified and delighted to pull off a compelling love story or a propulsive mystery or a tangled multi-generational family drama or a devastating political and historical novel - but somehow Lily Meyer manages to do all of that
ISBN: 9780857309563
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272 pages