The Remainder Biddy Jenkinson

The Remainder Biddy JenkinsonShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize 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 in 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

to examine the shape and texture of memories

and this too will be swept away

Rilke and Yeats

can be defined precisely as ‘a strong feeling of affection’

Burning the Bed (2003)

No one’s springing to attention

David Calcutt

At the time of her death

unsung at the time

Peter Joseph Gloviczki

wide-ranging and scholarly

This nudges her to call her friend Kasia