Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eyeopening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America. When sixteenyearold Gabriel Lazris, an American in Santiago, Chile, meets Caro Ravest, something clicks. Caro, who is Chilean, is charming, curious, and deeply herself. Gabriel dreams of their future together. But everybodys saying theres going to be a coupand no one says it louder than Gabriels dad, a Nixonloving newspaper editor who Gabriel suspects is working with the C.I.A. Gabriels father is adamant that the moment political unrest erupts, their family is going home. To Gabriel, though, Chile is home.Decades later, Gabriels Americanraised adult daughter Nina heads to Buenos Aires in a lastditch effort to save her dissertation. Quickly, though, she 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 transforms Ninas sense of her family and identity, pushing her to confront the moral weight of being an American citizen in a hemisphere long dominated by U.S. power. But not until Short Wars coda do we get true insight into the divergent fortunes of Gabriel Lazris and Caro Ravest.Shaped by the geopolitical forces that brought farright dictators like Pinochet to power, their fates reverberate through generations, evoking thorny...

Binding: Paperback;270 pages; Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 418 g; Dimensions: 202 x 128 x 18

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