· As Lina begins to confront her memories and the country's traumatic history, strange happenings start taking place at The Anthill: something is violently scratching at the inside of the closet door, the kids are drawing unsettling pictures, and there Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. · “Julianne Pachico’s brilliant and scary new novel sneaks up on you. At once a powerfully imagined reckoning with national trauma and one young woman’s confrontation with considerable privilege and terrible loss, The Anthill is fiercely original. International in scope, profoundly human in its concerns, it feels like just the kind of novel we need in unsettling times.”Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. · The following extract is from The Anthill by Julianne Pachico. The novel is set in Medellin, Colombia, where Lina, who was sent to England after her mother’s death when she was eight, returns, searching for the person who can tell her what’s happened in the time that has passed. The Anthill explores what we choose to do with inherited and self-created identity.
The Anthill by Julianne Pachico Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say about The Anthill: "At the start of Pachico's uneven sophomore effort (after The Lucky Ones), year-old half-Colombian and half-British Maria 'Lina' Carolina returns to her birthplace of Medellín, Colombia, for the first time in 20 years. The Anthill Julianne Pachico. Doubleday, $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. The Lucky Ones; Buy this book At the. The Anthill by Julianne Pachico is published by Faber Faber (£ Hardback). For more information and to buy the book, click here. To discover more content exclusive to our print and digital editions, subscribe here to receive a copy of The London Magazine to your door every two months, while also enjoying full access to our extensive.
The Anthill Julianne Pachico. Doubleday, $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. The Lucky Ones; Buy this book At the. THE ANTHILL. by Julianne Pachico ‧ RELEASE DATE: . After a year absence, Lina returns to Medellín in search of the authenticity of her childhood. In a city busy rebuilding itself from the ruins of conflict, what she finds is nothing as simple as atonement. For decades, Medellín, Colombia, had one of the highest murder rates in the world. A propulsive, vibrant literary tour de force, The Anthill explores what we choose to do with inherited and self-created identity. It's a searing and affecting depiction of what redemption can be – for a person and for a country – in the wake of trauma.
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