Following the Pinochet coup, which overthrew President Salvador Allende, thousands of Chilean families emigrated to escape the new regime, including the Lucho family, who headed to Germany.
For his parents, time stopped the moment he left Chile, waiting for the moment of return, and the world was divided into two parts: the lost homeland, and the remaining countries, and like an entire generation that refuses to accept what happened, they sank into (ghettos) of sadness; Europe was offering them lungs of freedom, but it was also inflicting on them the pain of distance.
As for Lucho, Germany was a different country full of what was worth living: he had daily challenges in the street and school to live, new cultures to discover, friendships, enmities, quarrels, and the first heartbeats he had to experience; All this without forgetting his inherited duty towards his motherland.
About the obsessions of asylum, failures, dreams, and disappointments, Scarmetta leaves his teenage hero to tell his story, presenting us with a charming model of friendship, companionship, and the struggle for justice.
About the novel:
The novel belongs to the doctrine of absurdity, as it tends towards black comedy, and in general it paints rich and diverse pictures of a group of characters that are united by the whole neighborhood of Sleep.
The novel presents various stories from the nineties in one of the neighborhoods of the Gulf, and the psychological changes that its people experienced, realistic events, and a fateful war.
The heroes of the novel are a random sample of simple people who lived in the writer’s imagination. He tried to dissect their relationship with each other and also their relationships with others.
Sami Al-Khelaifi.
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