Overview
A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPRāS āBOOKS WE LOVEā
āA tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparentā¦[Chilean Poet] broadens the authorās scope and quite likely his international reputation.ā āLos Angeles Times
āZambra's books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence level, is in a world all his own.āĀ āJuan Vidal, NPR.org
A writer ofĀ āstartling talentā (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 familyāa stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language.
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Eventually, their ambitions pull the lovers in different directionsāin Gonzaloās case, all the way to New York. Though Gonzalo takes his books when he goes, still, Vicente inherits his ex-stepfatherās 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 poetsānot the famous, dead kind, your Nerudas or Mistrals or BolaƱos, but rather the living, striving, everyday ones. Pruās research leads her into this eccentric communityāanother kind of family, dysfunctional but ultimately loving. Will it also lead Vicente and Gonzalo back to each other?
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In Chilean Poet, Alejandro Zambra chronicles with enormous tenderness and insight the small momentsāsexy, absurd, painful, sweet, profoundāthat 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 relationshipsāa partner, father, stepfather, teacher, lover, writer, and friendāit is a bold and brilliant new work by one of the most important writers of our time.
This book title, Chilean Poet (A Novel) - 9780143109204, ISBN: 9780143109204, by Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell, published by Penguin Publishing Group (February 14, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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