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What to expect

‘A spellbinding nightmare … Addictive’ FERNANDA MELCHOR

‘Grippingly original, a book of intense power’ PHILIPPE SANDS

‘One of the most powerful voices of current Chilean literature’ EL MUNDO

The shockingly compulsive new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Remainder. 

Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances that led to this moment. As we enter into her account of her daily existence, we see how her apparently simple life begins to sour, but would that drive her to the unthinkable?

Disturbing and profound, Clean explores domestic work, class and violence, against the backdrop of Chile’s changing political landscape. This is one of the most daring and compelling thrillers in international literature.

‘Clean is the best book of the year. It is the novel of a vital and truly extraordinary writer’ LA TERCERA

Critics Review

  • ‘What a spellbinding nightmare Alia Trabucco Zerán has written. A biting, addictive portrait of the rot ‘good families’ conceal’ Fernanda Melchor, author of Hurricane Season

    ‘Grippingly original, a book of intense power’ Philippe Sands, author of The Last Colony

    ‘Clean is the best book of the year. It is the novel of a vital and truly extraordinary writer’ La Tercera

    ‘One of the most powerful voices of current Chilean literature’ El Mundo

    ‘Overwhelming … tragic and essential’ El Mundo

    ‘Those who read Clean are met with life looking straight at them, stripped of any mask and without the option to look the other way’ El Diario

    ‘This dazzling and overwhelming novel […] lifts the veil on the long literary tradition of the Chilean house employee to peek into the cruelty and the true horror of the condition, to reorganise the perverse journey taken by affections and class hatreds in order to look for an irreversible transformation’ Lina Meruane

    ‘With the strength of an indomitable voice, Trabucco Zerán creates […] a very lucid, ruthless and brutal novel‘ Federico Falco

    ‘An amazing novel, using the monologue of a woman whose only possession is her voice’ Emiliano Monge

    ‘A novel that gives you no escape […] Acidic, intelligent, coherent and authentic‘ El Diario

    ‘A story of alienation and power… A twist on brutality as a territory for reflection… Spraying the reader with cold blood’ ABC Cultural

    ‘Full of powerful scenes that combine with incredible mastery explosions of language with implosions of plot and vice versa‘ El País

    ‘Clean is a tense novel, and Trabucco uses that carefully concocted tension to portray the everlasting class struggle‘ The Objective

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