Bonsai

Author:	Zambra, Alejandro McDowell, Megan
Binding:	Paperback
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Overview

ISBN:	9780143136507
Publisher:	Penguin Books
Language:	English
Page Count:	15
Publication Date:	8/2/2022
Size:	7.61" l x 4.95" w x 0.47"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Fiction	Coming of Age
Fiction	Literary

When it was first published in 2006, then-literary critic and poet Alejandro Zambra’s first novel, Bonsai, caused a sensation. “It was said,” according to Chile’s newspaper of record, El Mercurio, “that it represented the end of an era, or the beginning of another, in the nation’s letters.” Zambra would go on to become a writer of international renown, winning prizes in Chile and around the world for his funny, tender, sly fictions.

Here, in a brilliant new translation from four-time International Booker Prize nominee Megan McDowell, is the little book that started it all: The story of Julio and Emilia, two Chilean university students who, seeking truth in great literature, find one another instead. As they fall together and drift apart over the course of young adulthood, Zambra spins an emotionally engrossing, expertly distilled, formally inventive tale of love, art, and memory.