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.
When sixteen-year-old Gabriel Lazris, an American in Santiago, meets Caro Ravest at a party in 1973, something
clicks. They fall fast, but with everyone saying there\'s going to be a coup - and no one saying it louder than Gabriel\'s Nixon-loving father - Gabriel is afraid his parents will force him to return home. But to Gabriel, Chile is home.
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