Ways of Going Home

from GraceZ

This was a very interesting and enjoyable read. It was the right blend of "literary writing" with story-telling for me; there was a flow to it and I was never distracted by contrived or over-done writing.The story itself was not what the story was, if that makes sense... I thought it was a lot li...

from nosajeel

There was a lot that was good in Ways of Going Home, and it was generally very readable, but ultimately it seemed a little thin and did not fully work for me. The postmodernism became somewhat wearying, in part because it did not have enough else to sustain ones interest.The novella is divided in...

from jasonlf

There was a lot that was good in Ways of Going Home, and it was generally very readable, but ultimately it seemed a little thin and did not fully work for me. The postmodernism became somewhat wearying, in part because it did not have enough else to sustain ones interest. The novella is divided i...

from Beamis12

This is a novel within a novel, in that it is from the viewpoint of a young boy that the first part of the novel is written, the second part is narrated by the author of the first past. Confused? Meta fiction is a style that is fantastic when the prose is but that can alos be confusing. I liked t...

from klburnside

Ways of Going Home is told from the point of view of a Chilean novelist who grew up during Pinochet's dictatorship. It alternates between excerpts from his novel and what is happening in his real life. The novel within the novel is fairly autobiographical, and by using this structure, Zambra illu...