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Aunque este singular e inclasificable libro de Alejandro Zambra se llama Literatura infantil, conviene advertir que incluye un magnífico cuento que gira en torno al lenguaje grosero y un relato directamente lisérgico en que un hombre intenta, en pleno viaje terapéutico de hongos, volver a aprender el dificilísimo arte de gatear. En caso de que algún niño llegara accidentalmente a estas...

Verónica tarda, Verónica se demora inexplicablemente y el libro sigue hasta que ella regrese o hasta que Julián esté seguro de que ya no volverá. De eso va La vida privada de los árboles: de la noche larga y tal vez definitiva que Julián pasa esperando que su mujer regrese, que el libro termine. Hacia el final de ésta, la segunda novela del chileno Alejandro Zambra, Julián desea...

Alejandro Zambra vuelve en grande a la novela con este magnífico libro sobre familias hechizas, poetas y poetastros. Una hermosa, desenfadada y seriamente divertida declaración de amor a la poesía.
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 añ...

"Decir que Facsímil es una novela sería tan aventurado como decir que no lo es. Quizás 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, aquí, 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 po...

From the author of My Documents and Chilean Poet, a wise, humorous, and captivating literary exploration of the delights and absurdities of childhood, fatherhood, and family lifeChildish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of fatherhood, a transformative experience that reshapes and enlivens the author's relationship to aging, intimacy, and time....

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”“A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent…[Chilean Poet] broadens the author’s scope and quite likely his international reputation.” —Los Angeles Times“Zambra's books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence level, is in a world all his own.” —Juan Vidal, NPR.org A writer...

The landmark first story collection from internationally acclaimed author Alejandro Zambra, “burning brighter than most anything we’d call exceptional, yesterday or today and in any language” (NPR)—now reissued by Penguin with five bonus storiesAn early desktop computer becomes the third partner in a doomed relationship, and a receptacle for hundreds of files of music, images, and writing of questionable quality. A man attempts to quit smoking...

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 - now published in the UK for the first time by Fitzcarraldo Editions.

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A tender, heartfelt and very funny novel about fathers, sons and the many forms of family, from an internationally acclaimed writer

The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a "short and strikingly original" (The New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and our loved ones-now reissued by PenguinVeronica is late, and Julián 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. He has made a life as a literature professor, developin...

Available for the first time in the UK in a beautifully rendered new translation, Alejandro Zambra's brilliantly distilled first novel, a formally innovative, metafictional tale of love, art and memory.

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.

Available for the first time from Penguin in a beautifully rendered new translation, international literary sensation Alejandro Zambra's emotionally engrossing and brilliantly distilled first novel-a "wrenching account of failed young love…a total knockout" (Junot Díaz)Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find one another instead. As they shadow one another throughout their...

A very funny, warm, and beautiful novel." -Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood 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 familyNine years after their bewildering breakup, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his high schoo...

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 familyNine 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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Als er nach neun Jahren seine erste Liebe wiedersieht, erhält Gonzalo eine zweite Chance. Und mit ihr eine Aufgabe: Vater sein. Denn während er sich in all der Zeit mit Haut und Haaren der Poesie verschrieb, bekam Carla einen Sohn. Der ist jetzt sechs, liebt Katzenfutter und wirkt mindestens genauso überrumpelt. Nicht nur deshalb will Gonzalo es besser machen als all die nichtsnutzigen Männer aus seiner Familie, sondern auch um seinem eigenen ...

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Due narrazioni parallele, ricche di sorprese e di enigmatici contatti, due romanzi brevi pubblicati assieme per la prima volta, compongono questo volume. Nel primo, "La vita privata degli alberi", inedito in Italia, una moglie è uscita per una lezione di disegno e il marito è solo in casa con la figlia di lei di otto anni, che ama come fosse propria. Lui le racconta storie di sua invenzione su alberi capaci di parlare, e lei ascoltandolo alla ...