Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples, they lie to each other, revise themselves, and try new identities on for size, observing and analyzing their love story as if it’s one of the great novels they both pretend to have read. As they shadow each other throughout their young adulthoods, falling together and drifting apart, Zambra spins a formally innovative, metafictional tale that brilliantly explores the relationship among love, art, and memory.
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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.
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‘The “last truly great book” I read has to be Alejandro Zambra’s Bonsai. A subtle, eerie, ultimately wrenching account of failed young love in Chile among the kind of smartypant set who pillow-talk about the importance of Proust.... A total knockout.’
— Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781913097998
Publisert
2022-08-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
125 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
76
Forfatter
Oversetter
Om bidragsyterne
Alejandro Zambra is the author of the novels Chilean Poet, Multiple Choice, Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees, and Bonsai; the short story collection, My Documents, a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; and Not to Read, a collection of essays. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, as well as a Cullman Center fellowship, his stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, The White Review and Harper’s, among others. He lives in Mexico City.