“Sharp and colourful, contrasting well with her characters’ furious attempts to come to terms with the past ... The Remainder is well translated, stimulating and grapples skilfully with a complex subject.” Michael Eaude, Literary Review
“[a] darkly comic road trip ... [Trabucco-Zéran’s] spring-heeled prose moves lightly from lyrical to demotic, bawdy to elegiac.” The Spectator
“Intelligent and immersive ... elegiac.” TLS
“In a notable translation by Sophie Hughes, Zerán’s lyricism and eye for detail shine on the page ... There is plenty to commend in the book’s intentions, and in its elegiac ambitions.” The Irish Times
“[The Remainder] tells us ... everything about what it is like to grow up in the shadow of other people’s unhappiness.” The Big Issue
“Striking ... rendered with impressive fluidity” Katie Da Cunha Lewin, The White Review
“I have encountered few writers capable of so perfectly capturing the weight of inherited memories ... macabre, complex, rich writing.” Gary Perry, Foyles
“In a notable translation by Sophie Hughes, Zerån's lyricism and eye for detail shine on the page.” Irish Times
“The Remainder controls a remarkable range of registers (it is, by turns, lyrical, elegiac, sensual, funny, tragic). The author, like her characters, is obsessed with words, those ‘cracks in language’ that house our particular ways of understanding things. This novel is sure to endure.” Edmundo Paz Soldán
“The Remainder redefines the political novel . . . The voices in The Remainder are some of the most powerful to have come out of Latin America in the last year.” Bárbara Pérez, Instrucciones de Uso
“A Chilean road trip reveals new ways to think about historical memory.” Alba Lara, Iowa Literaria
“One of the best publications of 2015.” Patricia Espinosa, Las Ultimas Noticias
“A triumphant debut.” Antonio Skármeta, El Mercurio
“A fundamental book about what it means to mourn the past, about the remainders of a history that refuses to be forgotten. This is the debut we all wish we had written. A spirited, brave, urgent book, capable of weaving the political and the poetic.” Carlos Fonseca
“Intelligent and uncompromising, and as unforgettably vivid as noir.” Chloe Aridjis
“A powerful, impressive novel, dotted with scenes that are as unique as they are unforgettable.” Lina Meruane
"Thanatofiction at its best and a debut that leaves the reader wanting more." Kirkus Reviews
