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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPRS BOOKS WE LOVE
A tender and funny story about love family and the peculiar position of being a stepparentChilean Poet broadens the authors scope and quite likely his international reputation Los Angeles Times
Zambra is one of the most brilliant Latin American writers of his generation The New York Review of Books
Zambras books have long shown him to be a writer who at the sentence level is in a world all his ownJuan Vidal NPRorg
A writer ofstartling talent The New York Times Book Review Alejandro Zambra returns with his most substantial work yet a story of fathers and sons ambition and failure and what it means to make a family
After a chance encounter at a Santiago nightclub aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his first love Carla Though their desire for each other is still intact much has changed among other things Carla now has a sixyearold son Vicente Soon the three form a happy sortof familya stepfamily though no such word exists in their language
Eventually their ambitions pull the lovers in different directionsin Gonzalos case all the way to New York Though Gonzalo takes his books when he goes still Vicente inherits his exstepfathers love of poetry When at eighteen Vicente meets Pru an American journalist literally and figuratively lost in Santiago he encourages her to write about Chilean poetsnot the famous dead kind your Nerudas or Mistrals or Bolaos but rather the living striving everyday ones Prus research leads her into this eccentric communityanother kind of family dysfunctional but ultimately loving Will it also lead Vicente and Gonzalo back to each other
In Chilean Poet Alejandro Zambra chronicles with enormous tenderness and insight the small momentssexy absurd painful sweet profoundthat make up our personal histories Exploring how we choose our families and how we betray them and what it means to be a man in relationshipsa partner father stepfather teacher lover writer and friendit is a bold and brilliant new work by one of the most important writers of our time
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