This Country Is No Longer Yours
A Novel
In Avik Jain Chatlani's explosive debut novel, This Country Is No Longer Yours, a chorus of disparate voices comes together to explore how idealists and opportunists betray ordinary people in war-torn Peru.
One of our dead writers liked to say, "Peru is a beggar sleeping on a bench made of gold." It's a cute phrase, but it's not really true. There's hardly any gold left, and none of us get much sleep.
Based on real events in 1970s–2000s Peru, This Country Is No Longer Yours tells the story of people living through the terrorist campaign of the Maoist Shining Path, while struggling to survive amid economic crisis and state collapse.
A student of the revolution's leader is dispatched to Cambodia to learn from the…
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May 7, 2024
AVIK JAIN CHATLANI, the grandson of the first Indian emigrants to Peru, was born in Canada and raised in Chile. He holds degrees in History and Latin American studies from McGill and Boston University, and currently works as a translator and editor with El País. He has taught in schools and prisons in Latin America and the United States and currently divides his time between Ottawa and Washington DC. This Country Is No Longer Yours is his debut novel.
