{"product_id":"chilean-poet-9780143109204","title":"Chilean Poet","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eWALL STREET JOURNAL \u003c\/i\u003eTOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e ONE OF NPR'S \"BOOKS WE LOVE\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent...[\u003ci\u003eChilean Poet\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebroadens the author's scope and quite likely his international reputation.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Zambra [is] one of the most brilliant Latin American writers of his generation.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Zambra's books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence level, is in a world all his own.\" --Juan Vidal, NPR.org \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA writer of \"startling talent\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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 family--a stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEventually, their ambitions pull the lovers in different directions--in Gonzalo's case, all the way to New York. Though Gonzalo takes his books when he goes, still, Vicente inherits his ex-stepfather's 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 poets--not the famous, dead kind, your Nerudas or Mistrals or Bolaños, but rather the living, striving, everyday ones. Pru's research leads her into this eccentric community--another kind of family, dysfunctional but ultimately loving. Will it also lead Vicente and Gonzalo back to each other? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChilean Poet\u003c\/i\u003e, Alejandro Zambra chronicles with enormous tenderness and insight the small moments--sexy, absurd, painful, sweet, profound--that 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 relationships--a partner, father, stepfather, teacher, lover, writer, and friend--it is a bold and brilliant new work by one of the most important writers of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlejandro Zambra\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten books, including \u003ci\u003eMultiple Choice\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBonsai\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Private Lives of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMy Documents\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, his stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. He lives in Mexico City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan McDowell (translator)\u003c\/b\u003e is the recipient of a 2020 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been short- or long-listed four times for the International Booker Prize. She lives in Santiago, Chile.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615028941074,"sku":"9780143109204","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fe07b42c-ccf5-4368-9707-f6d29bea1128.jpg?v=1732473013","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chilean-poet-9780143109204","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}