''A spellbinding nightmare ... Addictive'' FERNANDA MELCHOR ''Compelling, claustrophobic and irresistible'' PAULA HAWKINS ''Grippingly original, a book of intense power'' PHILIPPE SANDS '' One of the most powerful voices of current Chilean literature '' EL MUNDO The shockingly compulsive new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Remainder . Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances that led to this moment. As we enter into her account of her daily existence, we see how her apparently simple life begins to sour, but would that drive her to the unthinkable? Disturbing and profound, Clean explores domestic work, class and violence, against the backdrop of Chile''s changing political landscape. This is one of the most daring and compelling thrillers in international literature. '' Clean is the best book of the year. It is the novel of a vital and truly extraordinary writer'' LA TERCERA ''Disturbing and commanding'' LALINE PAULL '' Brutal, beautiful, feverishly propulsive , a novel to lose yourself in'' JENNY MUSTARD

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Alia Trabucco Zerán was born in Chile in 1983. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University and she holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies from University College London. Her debut novel, The Remainder was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2019. Her non-fiction title, When Women Kill won the British Academy Book Prize 2022 and was shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Criticism Award, and film rights have been sold. Her latest novel, Clean, is being translated into 15 languages. She won the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award 2024 for her next project. She lives in Santiago.

Sophie Hughes is the translator of over twenty books from Spanish. She has been nominated for the International Booker Prize four times, and in 2021 she won the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize. Her work has featured in the New York Times, The Paris Review, the Guardian, Granta, frieze and The White Review.

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