"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[...]
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. Whether chronicling the attempts of a migraine-afflicted writer to quit smoking or the loneliness of the call-centre worker, the life[...]
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[...]
Growing up in 1980s Chile, a young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago with his friends while the adults become slowly entangled in the violence of Pinochet's regime - accomplices and victims of the brutal dictatorship. As the country shudders under authoritarian rule, the boy creates[...]
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[...]