Bonsai

Name: Bonsai
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ISBN: 9781612191683

ISBN-10: 1612191681

ISBN-13: 9781612191683

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alejandro Zambra, Carolina De Robertis

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Once outside its flowerpot, the tree ceases to be a bonsai."Winner of Chile’s Literary Critics’ Award for Best Novel"Hailed as a great Latin American literary event, this stylistically innovative, elliptically told tale of a young man and his love who mysteriously disappears is, as the narrator tells us, “a simple story that becomes complicated.”Through both the distance and closeness of these young lovers, Alejandro Zambra brilliantly explores the relationship between art, love, and life.Bonsaiis accessible yet profound—as one critic in Chile’s Capital newspaper put it, “Brief as a sigh and forceful as a blow.”The Contemporary Art of the Novellaseries is designed to highlight work by major…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication date: 3/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.220
Language: English

Alejandro Zambra is hailed as the greatest writer of Chile's younger generation. He is a poet and critic, and currently teaches literature at the Diego Partolas University in Santiago. Bonzai is his first novel. It was awarded Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel.