02930cam a2200385 4500 468419089 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781945492266 1945492260 B07NDKPFGC Amazon 44539db6-1a7c-4d89-8d50-d028d14a341d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4568798 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ybarra, Gabriela. The Dinner Guest [Libby]. Transit Books, 2019. Spain. ETA. man booker international prize. True-Life Novel. Basque Separatism. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1911kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p><b>Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize</b></p> <p><i>The Dinner Guest</i> 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.</p> <p><i>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 plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often he appears, casts his shadow over the table, and erases one of those present.</i></p> <p><i>The first to vanish was my grandfather.</i></p> <p>In 1977, three terrorists broke into Gabriela Ybarra's grandfather's home, and pointed a gun at him in the shower. This was the last time his family saw him alive, and his kidnapping played out in the press, culminating in his murder.Ybarra first heard the story when she was eight, but it was only after her mother's death, years later, that she felt the need to go deeper and discover more about her family's past.</p> <p><i>The Dinner Guest</i> is a novel with the feel of documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events—the very public death of Ybarra's grandfather, and the more private pain as her mother dies from cancer and Gabriela cares for her. Devastating and luminous, the book is an investigation, marking the arrival of a talented new voice in international fiction.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. Wimmer, Natasha. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=44539db6-1a7c-4d89-8d50-d028d14a341d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=44539db6-1a7c-4d89-8d50-d028d14a341d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=44539db6-1a7c-4d89-8d50-d028d14a341d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)