A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10
BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE" "A tender and funny
story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a
stepparent...[Chilean Poet] broadens the author's scope and quite
likely his international reputation." -Los Angeles Times "Zambra's
books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence
level, is in a world all his own." -Juan Vidal, NPR.org A writer of
"startling talent" (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro
Zambra returns with his most substantial work yet: a story of
fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and what it means to make a
family After a chance encounter at a Santiago nightclub, aspiring
poet Gonzalo reunites with his first love, Carla. Though their
desire for each other is still intact, much has changed: among
other things, Carla now has a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the
three form a happy sort-of family-a stepfamily, though no such word
exists in their language. Eventually, their ambitions pull the
lovers in different directions-in Gonzalo's case, all the way to
New York. Though Gonzalo takes his books when he goes, still,
Vicente inherits his ex-stepfather's love of poetry. When, at
eighteen, Vicente meets Pru, an American journalist literally and
figuratively lost in Santiago, he encourages her to write about
Chilean poets-not the famous, dead kind, your Nerudas or Mistrals
or Bolanos, but rather the living, striving, everyday ones. Pru's
research leads her into this eccentric community-another kind of
family, dysfunctional but ultimately loving. Will it also lead
Vicente and Gonzalo back to each other? In Chilean Poet, Alejandro
Zambra chronicles with enormous tenderness and insight the small
moments-sexy, absurd, painful, sweet, profound-that make up our
personal histories. Exploring how we choose our families and how we
betray them, and what it means to be a man in relationships-a
partner, father, stepfather, teacher, lover, writer, and friend-it
is a bold and brilliant new work by one of the most important
writers of our time.
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