Alejandro Zambra

My Documents

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My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new in Chilean literature. Whether chronicling the attempts of a migraine-afflicted writer to quit smoking or the loneliness of the call-centre worker, the life of a personal computer or the return of a mercurial godson, this collection of stories evokes the disenchantments of youth and the disillusions of maturity in a Chilean society still troubled by its recent past. Written with the author's trademark irony and precision, humour and melancholy, My Documents is unflinchingly human and essential evidence of… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-9929747-9-4
EAN: 9780992974794
Produktnummer: 18295278
Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 228 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 215 KB

Über den Autor

Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer, poet, and critic. He currently teaches literature at the Diego Portales University in Santiago. His first novel Bonsai was awarded Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel. He is also the author of The Private Lives of Trees and Ways of Going Home, which won the Altazor Prize and the National Council Prize for Books, both for the best Chilean novel. His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Tin House, Harper's, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, among other places. He was selected as one of the Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists by Granta in 2010.