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 young adulthoods, falling together and drifting apart, Zambra spins a formally innovative, metafictional tale that brilliantly explores the relationship between love, art, and memory.