Alejandro Zambra

"NAMED ONE OF THEBEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, ELLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST AND PUREWOW "Latin America's new literary star."--The New Yorker "Brilliant. Like a literary exercise for the mind, but strangely fun to decode."--Elle "The most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño," (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra is celebrated around the world for his strikingly original, slyly funny, daringly unconventional...

Collection of eleven short stories that can be read cumulatively as a novel. "Con el fino sentido de la ironía y la precisión que ya le conocemos, con humor y melancolía, con espíritu paródico, con aliento lírico y a veces con rabia, Alejandro Zambra traza la anodina existencia de unos hombres que se repliegan en una idea antigua de la masculinidad, o el tránsito de unos seres pendulares que apuestan sus últimas fichas al amor. La incesante...

"Veronica is late, and Juli�an is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. But as the night stretches on before him, and the hours pass with no sign of Veronica, Juli�an finds himself caught up in the slipstream of the story of his life-of their lives together"--

"Childish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of fatherhood, a transformative experience that reshapes and enlivens the author's relationship to aging, intimacy, and time. Written in Alejandro Zambra's brilliantly warm, playful, and philosophical voice, these pieces explore the lives of families and their stories through a wide variety of topics--from...

"One of Cuba's-and Latin America's-greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro Zambra. When he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a merchant sailor from Marseille, brings with him not only the idealism of the French Revolution but also its ambition and bloodlust. Landing...

The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.