The Private Lives Of Trees
The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julin is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Vernica to return from her art class. Each night, Julin has been improvising a story about trees to tell Daniela before she goes to sleep, and each Sunday he works on a novel about a man tending to his bonsai, but something about this night is different. As Julin becomes increasing concerned that Vernica wont return, he reflects on their life together in minute detail, and imagines what Danielaat twenty, at twenty-five, at thirty years old, without a motherwill thi…
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- ISBN: 978-1-934824-24-5
- EAN: 9781934824245
- Produktnummer: 21423061
- Verlag: Open Letter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 104 S.
- Masse: H12.9 cm x B20.2 cm x D0.8 cm 126 g
- Gewicht: 126
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Alejandro Zambra was named as one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-language Novelists. He is the author of three novels, including Bonsai, which was made into a film, and Ways of Going Home.Megan McDowell received her Master's Degree in Literary Translation from the University of Texas at Dallas. In addition to two books by Alejandro Zambra, she has translated Under This Terrible Sun by Carlos Busqued and La Vida Doble by Arturo Fontaine.
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