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02376aam a2200385 i 4500 001 2234618078F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 201022t20212021cau 000 f eng d 020 $a 1945492503 020 $a 9781945492501 035 $a (OCoLC)1201226637 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d TJT $d OCO $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 050 4 $a PQ8098.13.O753 $b S5713 2021 082 04 $a 863/.64 $2 23 100 1 $a Costamagna, Alejandra, $d 1970- $e author. 245 14 $a The touch system / $c Alejandra Costamagna ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. 264 1 $a Oakland, California : $b Transit Books, $c 2021 300 $a 151 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a Cat sitter, insomniac, former schoolteacher. Ania worries she is a "stand-in occupant," a substitute in her own life. When she receives a request from her father to visit her dying uncle AgustÃn in Argentina, she makes the long journey across the Andes from Chile to Campana, where her family immigrated from Italy. Her trip, one she used to make every summer with her father, will be an escape from the present and a journey to the borders of memory. What follows is an ambitious portrait of alienation and belonging, and of two families and countries separated by a range of mountains. Threaded together with encyclopedia entries, pages from an old immigrant manual, typing class exercises, passages from children's books, half-faded photos, and letters mailed between continents, The Touch System introduces Alejandra Costamagna as one of the most powerful and subtle writers in contemporary Latin American literature. 500 $a "First published in English translation by Transit Books in 2021". 650 0 $a Immigrant families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-actualization (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 651 0 $a Chile $x Social life and customs $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Chile. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205362 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Dillman, Lisa, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032846.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221203071216.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2234618078F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search