The Trail We Leave

Winner of Foreword Magazine's 2005 Book of the Year Award

The Trail We Leave
Short Fiction
by Rubén Palma
Translated by Alexander Taylor
“Rubén Palma’s imaginatively conceived stories, mostly set in Denmark and Chile, portray the dark lives of immigrants and exiles whose native and adoptive lands are equally inhospitable."—David Unger
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Palma was forced to leave his native Chile after the Pinochet coup d’etat in 1973 and went into exile in Denmark. In 2001 he wrote this collection of stories in Danish to rave reviews in major Danish papers. No one has captured the impact of culture shock in quite so vivid a fashion with such compelling characters or with such a range of tone. Palma is equally at home in hard-hitting, unsentimental drama and in the comic and satirical.

paperback /ISBN 978-1-931896-09-2 / $14.95
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