{"product_id":"9781917653008-what-remains","title":"What Remains","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA moving meditation on what is left in our wake. \u003ci\u003eWhat Remains\u003c\/i\u003e is a short book that touches lightly on big subjects: migration, colonialism, the urban-rural divide, identity, cultural curation and the meaning of home. Using elements of anthropology, essay and memoir, this is modern fiction, which demands to be read on its own striking terms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween the stifling atmosphere of New York City and the fog-covered mountains of Negueira de Muniz, \u003ci\u003eWhat Remains\u003c\/i\u003e follows a young Galician student researching the Franco regime's vast project of forced resettlement. In the 1950s, more than half the inhabitants of the villages in Negueira de Muniz, Galicia, were driven from their land in a brutal experiment to turn 'backward' country people into modern cattle farmers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmid the weight of unsettling archival documents, the voices of the displaced, and a sweltering New York summer, the unnamed narrator discovers the mysterious story of a woman who disappeared from her settlement without a trace. As he pieces together her strange fate, he confronts his own temporary status in a foreign land and wonders what it means to call a place home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntimate and dreamlike, \u003ci\u003eWhat Remains\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on the ruins of memory and an urgent exploration of identity, colonialism, and resistance. Inventively blending memoir, fiction, anthropology and travel writing, the novel investigates, with surprising intuition, the traces left in the places we inhabit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56329649881462,"sku":"9781917653008","price":10.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36199795_3abfe6ae-cf05-4bb5-8561-708a33d48295.jpg?v=1758767934","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781917653008-what-remains","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}