"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, and described by Junot Diaz as "a total knockout." Now, in his first short story collection, Zambra gives us eleven stories of liar[...]

A brilliant novel from "the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction" (Marcela Valdes, "The Nation")
Alejandro Zambra's "Ways of Going Home "begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middle-class housing development in a subur[...]

Once outside its flowerpot, the tree ceases to be a bonsai.
"Winner of Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel"
Hailed as a great Latin American literary event, this stylistically innovative, elliptically told tale of a young man and his love who mysteriously disappears is, as the nar[...]

A rising star of Latin American literature, and one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists[...]

I Chile på åttitallet er Pinochets diktatur allestedsnærværende. Mens de voksne enten blir offer for eller medløpere for systemet, vokser barna deres opp, leker og går på skolen i skyggen av diktaturet. I Måter å komme hjem påser vi Pinochets Chile gjennom øynene til en ni år gamm[...]

Through the articles and brief literary essays which make up this book, Alejandro Zambra outlines, without explicitly referencing it as such, a unique theory of reading. Whether it be in a sober and well-judged comment on a particular book, or else in the biographical digressions which arise from re[...]