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Jordan Kisner: Alia TrabuccoZerán’s ‘Clean’, 17 April 2025

Clean 
by Alia TrabuccoZerán, translated by Sophie Hughes.
Fourth Estate, 261 pp., £9.99, April, 978 0 00 860797 5
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... of a tragedy is that we know how it will end,’ a character tells us towards the end of Clean, Alia TrabuccoZerán’s latest novel. ‘And yet, for some reason, we carry on reading.’ The book begins with a sense of brutal inevitability. An unknown voice speaks flatly in a silent room: ‘The end of this story ...

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