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Literature: meeting with Ivan Roussin
<b> Monday, December 21 | 19:00</b><b> </b><b> Instituto Francés de Chile</b><b> </b><b> Free activity | in French | Limited spots</b> <span style="font-weight: 400;"…
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<b>🗓️ Monday, December 21 | ⏰ 19:00</b><b> </b><b>📍 Instituto Francés de Chile</b><b> </b><b>🎟️ Free activity | in French l Limited spots</b> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The French author </span><b>Ivan Roussin</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will take part in a conversation alongside </span><b>Nadine Dejong</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, French teacher and literary translator, about his first novel </span><b><i>Lien de sangs</i></b> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(2023), published by Plon.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Set in Santiago in 1988, on the eve of the plebiscite that would mark the end of Pinochet's dictatorship, the novel follows Guillermo, son of an MIR militant who disappeared after the 1973 coup d'état. Accompanied by his best friend Ethan, Guillermo returns to the country where he was born with the purpose of investigating his father's story. What begins as a journey of historical discovery turns into an immersion in the reality of a society deeply marked by repression and the wounds of the dictatorship. From discovery to discovery, the two friends will not come out unscathed.</span> <spa