Alejandro Zambra

"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...

"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 Bolaño," (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra is celebrated around the world for his strikingly original, slyly funny, daringly unconventional...

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,...

Presents a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."

The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.