The Dinner Guest av Gabriela Ybarra

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<p><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE</b><br><br><b><i>The Dinner Guest</i> is Gabriela Ybarra¿s prizewinning literary debut: a singular autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy.</b><br><i><br>The story goes that in my family there¿s an extra dinner guest at every meal. He¿s invisible, but always there. He has a plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often he appears, casts his shadow over the table, and erases one of those present. </i><br><i><br>The first to vanish was my grandfather.</i><br><br>In 1977, three terrorists broke into Gabriela Ybarra¿s grandfather¿s home, and pointed a gun at him in the shower. <br><br>This was the last time his family saw him alive, and his kidnapping played out in the press, culminating in his murder.<br><br> Ybarra first heard the story when she was eight, but it was only after her mother¿s death, years la