Short War
$21.25
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2026
Summary
It’s 1973, and Jewish-American Gabriel Lazris is sixteen years old and desperately in love with Caro Ravest, a Chilean Catholic. When the pair meet at a party in Santiago, something clicks. They fall fast, but with news of growing instability in Chile spreading even faster – partially thanks to Gabriel’s Nixon-loving newspaper editor dad – can they stay together amid political uncertainty?
Decades later, Gabriel’s American-raised adult daughter Nina heads to Buenos Aires in a last-dit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857309563 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857309560 |
| Author: | Lily Meyer |
| Publisher: | Verve Books |
| Imprint: | Verve Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A stellar roller-coaster of a debut – Megan McDowell, National Book Award winning translator of Samanta Schweblin’s Seven Empty Houses
[Short War] opens in Santiago, Chile, with a lovely, eerie assuredness, a moment like an incantation… – The New York Times
Meyer finds an admirable balance between the significant historical context and the individual characters’ drama. This well-honed novel humanizes an enduring nightmare of failed democracy – Publisher’s Weekly
A slow burn that absolutely ignites as the author deftly interweaves history, politics, and family – Kirkus
Any debut novelist would be gratified and delighted to pull off a compelling love story or a propulsive mystery or a tangled multi-generational family drama or a devastating political and historical novel - but somehow Lily Meyer manages to do all of that
Lily Meyer
Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novels The End of Romance and Short War. She is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals.
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