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Alejandro Zambra
A rising star of Latin American literature, and one of Granta’s Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists
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At once a chronicle of fatherhood, a letter to a child and a work of fiction,Childish Literatureis the latest, virtuosic addition to the oeuvre of one of the most exciting…
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Available in a beautifully rendered new translation, Alejandro Zambra’s brilliantly distilled first novel is a formally innovative, metafictional tale of love, art and memory.
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The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a ‘short and strikingly original’ (New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and our loved ones -…
My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature. My Documents…
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"Originally published in Spanish as Mis documentos by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona"
"Hopeful, funny, and full of wisdom. A meditation on fatherhood by one of our most perceptive writers." -Tara Westover, author of Educated
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This book is based on an unfriendly model: the multiple selection exam to access the university education that millions of young Chileans gave over decades, including Alejandro Zambra himself, in…
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The texts of this volume speak of vital experiences, of the readings and the authors that influenced the future writer, of his adventures as a teacher, of his activity as…
Zambra traces the existence of men who fall back on an outdated idea of masculinity, describing the transition of peripatetic beings who stake their chips on love. The search for…
Eleven narratives share a common theme and connect each story to make a whole.
Alejandro Zambra returns to the novel with this magnificent book. A beautiful, cheerful but seriously funny declaration of love to poetry. For a good part of this novel Gonzalo is…
Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell (trans.)
A tender, acute, hilarious saga about fathers, sons and the many forms of family, from a writer internationally heralded as a voice of his generation.
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Julio is convinced that it’s better to stay in his room and watch a bonsai grow than struggling with literature. This narrative is marked by the disappearance of a woman…
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE"
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Over the course of the chronicles and literary essays that make up this volume, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading.
Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache.
Veronica is late, and Juliaan is increasingly convinced she won’t ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep…
A brilliant novel from the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction Alejandro Zambra’s _Ways of Going Home _begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed…
Completely unlike anything you’ve read before: this playful, poignant, genre-bending novel / entrance examination tells a story of copying, cheating, faking and messing up.
Taut and full of verve. -The New York Times Book Review
The landmark first novel of one of the greatest living Latin American writers-now in a sparkling new translation by…
Juan Emar
For the first time in English, a mind-bending, surreal masterpiece by the forerunner of them all (Pablo Neruda)
Yannick Schettler
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Lateinamerikanische Sprachen, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 1,7, Universitat Konstanz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bisher spielte eine Beziehung der beiden vor allem in der…
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guia de lectura Formas de volver a casa del escritor chileno Alejandro Zambra, una novela minimalista sobre la infancia, la culpa y la dictadura…
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Alejo Carpentier
Set in Cuba at the time of the French Revolution, this novel aims to capture the immense changes sweeping the Caribbean at the turn of the 19th century - complete…
