Dónde puedo dejrlo
Alejandra Costamagna
NOVEL | 2026 | 284 pages
A hypnotic novel about friendship, disappearance, and memory that sheds light on the most fragile years of Chile’s history.
“If you don’t come, I’ll die” is Mara’s friendly threat to Manu. Or so it seems based on the six words written in one of their notebooks, which one of them will have to try use years later to as clues. It’s December 1989, the last summer of an era for two young women who have just turned eighteen. One, the girl who invites the other, needs to escape. The other one stays, and she doesn’t know that this appointment is a goodbye and that from now on she will be facing a void, that memories will knock against each other in her head and cause chaos, that time will shatter, and that her existence in this new reality will be shaped by the projected of a life she had taken for granted. Her life, her friend’s life, the lives of those around her—the world that gets left behind and the one she imagines is hurtling forward.
What do you do with the things that are gone? How do you come to terms with that empty space? What role does imagination play in the stories we tell each other? How many people are we or can we turn into if we work at transforming into others?
In this brief but powerful and enigmatic novel, reality is gradually transformed into a chaotic space that upends the narrative. The story of a friendship that was cut short is also an exploration of words that fail to convey what they want, of the characters we play and the search for slippery identities, about loss and grief, about the illusion of time as an arrow in motion, about the vagueness of memory in contrast to the precision of affection.
Dónde puedo dejarlo places itself on the thin line between memory, fantasy, and reverie.
RIGHTS: spanish ANAGRAMA
“Through a hauntingly reflective narrative, Dónde puedo dejarlo demonstrates the extent to which the heart of History beats not at the center of the explosion but rather in its most unexpected shards. An extraordinary apologia for friendship as conspiracy.”
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