Alejandro Zambra
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Verónica tarda, Verónica se demora inexplicablemente y el libro sigue hasta que ella regrese o hasta que Julián esté seguro de que ya no volverá. De eso va «La vida privada de los árboles»: de la noche larga y tal vez definitiva que Julián pasa esperando que su mujer regrese, que el libro termine. Hacia el final de ésta, la segunda novela del chileno Alejandro Zambra, Julián desea ser una voz en off, un coleccionista de historias ajenas;...
2) Bonsái
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Español
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Condenado a la seriedad y a la impostura, Julio, el silencioso protagonista de este libro, acaba convenciéndose de que es mejor encerrarse en su cuarto a observar el crecimiento de un bonsái que vagar por los incómodos caminos de la literatura. Este relato elíptico y vertiginoso está marcado por la inquietante desaparición de una mujer. Jorge Luis Borges aconsejaba escribir como si se estuviera redactando el resumen de una obra ya escrita. Eso...
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ELSINORE
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Portuguese
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Declaração de amor à literatura, à poesia e aos poetas que desprezam o romance, Poeta Chileno é uma obra visceral e pertida sobre paternidade, famílias fragmentadas e os trágicos altos e baixos do amor, que confirma Alejandro Zambra como uma das vozes mais importantes da literatura latino-americana contemporânea.
Plano Nacional de Leitura
Literatura - 15-18 anos - Maiores de 18 anos
Vencedor do Prémio Mejores Obras Literarias 2021
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4) Bonsai
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Deutsch
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Die blendend schöne Miniatur einer Liebesgeschichte
Julio liebt Emilia. Emilia liebt Julio. Beide lieben Proust, beide haben noch keine Seite Proust gelesen. In Santiago de Chile lernen sie sich während des Literaturstudiums kennen. Sie werden ein Paar, still, selbstverständlich, sie gehen auseinander, still, selbstverständlich, und Emilia stirbt. Eine simple Geschichte, die Alejandro Zambra in eine einfache und bis in jedes Wort klare Form bringt,...
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 715
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Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Aunque este singular e inclasificable libro de Alejandro Zambra se llama Literatura infantil, conviene advertir que incluye un magnífico cuento que gira en torno al lenguaje grosero y un relato directamente lisérgico en que un hombre intenta, en pleno viaje terapéutico de hongos, volver a aprender el dificilísimo arte de gatear. En caso de que algún niño llegara accidentalmente a estas páginas, debería leerlas en compañía de un adulto,...
6) Bonsai
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English
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"Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples, they lie to each other, revise themselves, and try new identities on for size, observing and analyzing their love story as if it's one of the great novels they both pretend to have read. As they shadow each other throughout their young adulthoods, falling together and drifting apart, Zambra spins...
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 641
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Editorial Anagrama
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Español
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"Durante buena parte de esta novela Gonzalo es un poetastro que quiere ser poeta y un padrastro que se comporta como si fuera el padre biológico de Vicente, un niño adicto a la comida para gatos que años más tarde se niega a estudiar en la universidad porque su sueño principal es convertirse -también- en poeta, a pesar de los consejos de Carla, su orgullosamente solitaria madre, y de León, un padre mediocre dedicado a coleccionar autitos de...
8) My documents
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English
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"The first story collection by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a book that "burn[s] brighter than most anything we'd call exceptional, yesterday or today and in any language" (NPR)-now reissued by Penguin In this beloved and critically acclaimed collection, Alejandro Zambra offers eleven stories that capture life in Chile before and after Pinochet, a catalog of the peculiar and powerful associations that shape our relationships,...
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The internationally acclaimed author, heralded as one of the most important writers of his generation, returns with the most substantial work of his career: an emotionally captivating, very funny novel about fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and the many forms of family"--
Nine years after their bewildering breakup, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his high school girlfriend, Carla, now the mother of a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle.
11) Multiple choice
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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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"Named one of the best books of the summer by The Wall Street Journal, ELLE, The Huffington Post amd 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 Bolan⁺³o," (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra is celebrated around the world for his strikingly original, slyly funny, daringly...
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Series
Colección compactos volume 640
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Description
The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle.
14) Mis documentos
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Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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Eleven narratives share a common theme and connect each story to make a whole.
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Publisher
Anagrama
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Este libro osado, amargo y divertido está basado en un modelo antipático, tal vez el más antipático de todos: un examen de selección múltiple para acceder a la educación universitaria, concretamente el que miles de jóvenes, a lo largo de décadas, tuvieron que afrontar para postular a las universidades chilenas. «A ustedes no los educaron, los entrenaron», sentencia un personaje de este libro feroz, hecho de relatos, fragmentos líricos...
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English
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"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...
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English
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"Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of a crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of ancient witches who are bent on transforming him, bit by bit, into the terrifying imbunche: a twisted monster with all of its orifices sewn up, buried alive in its own body. Once, Mudito walked upright and spoke clearly; once he was the personal assistant to one of Chile's most powerful...
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NYRB, New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"The Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that followed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor, Ribeyro said about his stories, 'in most of [them] those who are deprived of words in life find expression-- the marginalized, the forgotten, those condemned to an existence without harmony and without voice. I have restored to...
19) Yesterday
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New Directions paperbook volume 1526
Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the city of San Agustín de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is guillotined for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex; an ostrich in a zoo, reversing roles, devours a lion; and a man, while urinating, goes bungee jumping through time itself-and manages to escape. Or does he? Witness the weird machinery of Yesterday, where the Chilean master Juan Emar deploys irony, digression, and giddy repetitions...