Alejandro Zambra
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English
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The New Yorker "Brilliant. Like a literary exercise for the mind, but strangely fun to decode."--Elle "The most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño," (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra is celebrated around the world for his strikingly original, slyly funny, daringly unconventional fiction. Now, at the height of his powers, Zambra returns with his most audaciously brilliant book yet. Written in the form of a standardized...
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English
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"The first story collection by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a book that "burn[s] brighter than most anything we'd call exceptional, yesterday or today and in any language" (NPR)-now reissued by Penguin In this beloved and critically acclaimed collection, Alejandro Zambra offers eleven stories that capture life in Chile before and after Pinochet, a catalog of the peculiar and powerful associations that shape our relationships,...
Author
Publisher
Anagrama
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
Description
Decir que Facs̕mil es una novela ser̕a tan aventurado como decir que no lo es. Quiz̀s sea mejor decir solamente que es un libro de Alejandro Zambra, porque el estilo y los temas que lo han convertido en una voz imprescindible de la literatura latinoamericana se despliegan, aqu̕, de manera radical y extrema. A partir de la estructura de la Prueba de Aptitud Verbal, aplicada en Chile desde 1967 hasta 2002 a los postulantes a las universidades, el...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The internationally acclaimed author, heralded as one of the most important writers of his generation, returns with the most substantial work of his career: an emotionally captivating, very funny novel about fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and the many forms of family"--
Nine years after their bewildering breakup, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his high school girlfriend, Carla, now the mother of a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the...
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Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 641
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Durante buena parte de esta novela Gonzalo es un poetastro que quiere ser poeta y un padrastro que se comporta como si fuera el padre biológico de Vicente, un niño adicto a la comida para gatos que años más tarde se niega a estudiar en la universidad porque su sueño principal es convertirse -también- en poeta, a pesar de los consejos de Carla, su orgullosamente solitaria madre, y de León, un padre mediocre dedicado a coleccionar autitos de...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle.