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Reading club with Alejandra Moffat and Omar Zevallos

Mambo

Arequipa 2025, 
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.
Reading club with Alejandra Moffat and Omar Zevallos

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