Bonsai
A Novel
“Sublime . . . true and beautiful and moving.” —The New York Times Book Review
The landmark first novel of one of the greatest living Latin American writers—now in a sparkling new translation by his longtime collaborator
When it was first published in 2006, then-literary critic and poet Alejandro Zambra’s first novel, Bonsai, caused a sensation. “It was said,” according to Chile’s newspaper of record, El Mercurio, “that it represented the end of an era, or the beginning of another, in the nation’s letters.” Zambra would go on to become a writer of international renown, winning prizes in Chile and around the world for his funny, tender, sly fictions.
Here, in a brilliant new translation from four-time International Booker Prize nominee Megan McDowell,…
$22.00
August 2, 2022
Alejandro Zambra is the author of ten books, including Multiple Choice, Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, and My Documents, a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, as well as a New York Public Library Cullman Center fellowship, he has published fiction and essays in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. He lives in Mexico City.
Childish Literature
Alejandro Zambra; Translated by Megan McDowell
My Documents
Alejandro Zambra; Translated by Megan McDowell
Explosion in a Cathedral
Alejo Carpentier; Translated by Adrian Nathan West; Foreword by Alejandro Zambra
Chilean Poet
Alejandro Zambra; Translated by Megan McDowell
The Private Lives of Trees
Alejandro Zambra; Translated by Megan McDowell
Bonsai
Alejandro Zambra; Translated by Megan McDowell