Bonsái

"Winner of Chile's Literary CriticsTM Award for Best Novel"Now a Major Motion PictureHailed as a great Latin American literary event, this stylistically innovative, elliptically told tale of a young man & his love who mysteriously disappears is, as the narrator tells us, "a simple story that becomes complicated." Through both the distance & closeness of these young lovers, Alejandro Zambra brilliantly explores the relationship between art, love, & life.Bonsai is accessible yet profound - as one critic in Chile's Capital newspaper put it, "Brief as a sigh & forceful as a blow." °°° ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA is acclaimed as the greatest writer of Chile’s younger generation. He is a poet & critic & currently teaches literature at the Diego Portales University in Santiago. Bonsai is his first novel. It was awarded Chile’s Literary Critics’ Award for Best Novel. Translator CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS was raised in England, Switzerland, & California by Uruguayan parents. Her fiction & literary translations have appeared in ColorLines, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Indiana Review, & elsewhere. She is the author of The President & the Frog, The Invisible Mountain, & Perla.CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS is the author of five novels, including Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award & a Reading Women Award, & a finalist for the Kirkus Prize & a Lambda Literary Award; it was also selected as a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her work has been translated into 17 languages & she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize, & numerous other honors. An author of Uruguayan origins, she teaches at San Francisco State University, & lives in Oakland, California, with her wife & two children.carolinaderobertis.com "Winner of ChileвЂTMs Literary CriticsвЂTM Award for Best Novel" Now a Major Motion Picture 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. Bonsai is accessible yet profound—as one critic in ChileвЂTMs Capital newspaper put it, “Brief as a sigh and forceful as a blow.” PГЎginas : 36 Palabras : 10,729

"Winner of Chile’s Literary Critics’ Award for Best Novel"

Now a Major Motion Picture

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. Bonsai is accessible yet profound—as one critic in Chile’s Capital newspaper put it, “Brief as a sigh and forceful as a blow.”

**"Winner of ChileвЂTMs Literary CriticsвЂTM Award for Best Novel"** **Now a Major Motion Picture**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. __Bonsai__ is accessible yet profound—as one critic in ChileвЂTMs Capital newspaper put it, “Brief as a sigh and forceful as a blow.” PГЎginas : 36 Palabras : 10,729 Two Chilean university students, Emilia and Julio, become inseparable lovers until their relationship changes and Emilia mysteriously disappears from Chile