Reading club with Alejandra Moffat and Omar Zevallos
Mambo
Venue: Instituto Cultural Peruano Alemán
The Hay Festival reading club comes to Arequipa lead by Omar Zevallos presenting Alejandra Moffat (Chile) and her novel Mambo, a novel that represents the Chilean wave known as “literature of the children of the dictatorship”. The book’s protagonist, Ana, is a girl who has grown up through the clandestine years of the 1980s. She and her sister Julia, in all their innocence, recreate a childhood even in the midst of violence.