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...

After being briefly imprisoned for protesting against the Pinochet regime, student Miguel Flores is sent to the country, where he is shunned by everyone but middle-aged Amelia, owner of La Novena, who shows him a world he has always detested.

As though taken from Bosch's paintings, several offenders display their crimes in the pages of Sin: a killer, an adulterer, a butcher, an incestuous couple, an indifferent woman, an executioner, and a voyeur, as well as the shadow of the heavy-handed monarch himself. They must all appear before the only judge who can pardon them: the reader. The protagonists of these tales exist independently, but nevertheless make up an entity, like the arcana in...

Around the year 130 BC, after a long journey, the destinies of young Avi and the mythical Evaristus of Pagala coincide near the Hindu Kush mountains. The encounter, seemingly casual, sparks a tale in which adventure, spirituality, history, and language combine in a boundless literary experience that, gradually, leads to initiation. To get to that point, the reader must delve into the peculiar Portus Macedonum, into the magical isle of Bibakta, and...

"At the age of thirty, Laura leaves her partner and Ibiza to move to New York. Her youth was marked by her relationship with her father, an intolerant man; her mother, who disappeared only to return five years later; and Pablo, her brother, who finds a way to fight his mental illness through painting. In New York, Laura begins to work in a publishing company and attends the classes that Gael, a mysterious acquaintance of her mother's, teaches at Columbia...

What has to happen so that we are forced to redefine our idea of childhood? The appearance of thirty-two violent children of unknown origin completely disrupts the life of San Cristóbal, a small tropical city encased between the jungle and the river. Twenty years later, one of its protagonists wrote this luminous Republic, a chronicle woven of facts, evidence and rumors about how the city was forced to reformulate not only its idea of order and violence...

"A thrilling novel about the generation of children of the major Colombian drug lords of the '90s, and a true portrait of Medellín today."

"A girl's body is found floating in the water in what seems to be a ritual. At the heart of this episode is the superficial world of some rich, successful young men who have an evil lifelong bond and are a world apart from the victim: poor, and a survivor of the violence of her homeland"--Amazon.com.