Publisher Review

“Chilco is one of the most thrilling and urgent novels I’ve read this year – a searing portrait of Indigenous resilience and radical imagination.” -Morning Star

“Chilco is moving, keen, and disruptive; a beautiful novel about origin, identity, love, and the land we belong to.” -Monica Ojeda , author of JAWBONE

“A song to the resistance of urban indigenous diasporas who continue to imagine the possibility of return.” -Gabriela Wiener , author of SEXOGRAPHIES and NINE MOONS

“A book of fascinating imagination that invites us to open the windows, at this precise moment, to seek out the distant signs of hope.” -Marco Aviles , author of I AM NOT YOUR CHOLO

“These pages pulse with grief, but also with a burning desire to confront the wounds of colonialism and reclaim both language and territory.” -Liliana Colanzi , author of YOU GLOW IN THE DARK

“A novel that interrogates roots, identity and territory in the deepest sense.” -La Tercera

“Chilco weaves together decolonized territories, both in language and in social and emotional relations – and even among the bodily senses.” -Reforma

“A beautiful yet harsh political novel that depicts diversity through a baroque and expressive language.” -Pagina/12

“Powerful… an invitation towards new ways of reading what is happening and what is being written in the continent.” -El Pais

“Catrileo sketches out a poetic and political map… of Andean territory.” -La Nacion

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Praise for Daniela Catrileo

Winner of the Santiago Municipal Literature Prize (2024).