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Julio is convinced that it’s better to stay in his room and watch a bonsai grow than struggling with literature. This narrative is marked by the disappearance of a woman. Bonsai is poet and literary critic Alejandro Zambra's novelist debut.

First published in 2014, Facsimile accumulated accolades, editions, and translations at unexpected speed, demonstrating that its unique blend of sharpness and tenderness resonates on various scales, becoming one of Alejandro Zambra's seminal titles. "Funny, melancholic, surprising ... It may change how you think about...

Zambra takes us to Chile in the 1980s seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It speaks of a generation that learned to read and draw while their parents became the victims or accomplices of the Pinochet dictatorship. It describes how their lives...

Veronica is late, Veronica is inexplicably late, and the book goes on until she comes back or until Julián is sure she won't come back. Towards the end, Julián wants to write and not be written, but to wait is to allow himself to...

This unique book by Alejandro Zambra is called Children's Literature, although it includes a magnificent story that revolves around obscene language and a story in which a man tries, during a therapeutic mushroom journey, to relearn the extremely difficult art of crawling. In case...

Zambra follows the lives of men that fall back on an outdated idea of masculinity, describing the transition of peripatetic beings who stake their chips on love. The search for the father and the legitimacy of pain are some of the subjects that are...

This is an inventory of phobias and whims, delicious album of dates, frustrated projects and declarations of love -to photocopies, to drafts and to Chilean poetry. This is a passionate, strange, fun and melancholic book. / Inventario de filias, fobias y caprichos, delicioso álbum...

Alejandro Zambra returns with a beautiful, but seriously funny, declaration of love to poetry. Gonzalo is a step poet who wants to be a poet, and a stepfather. He behaves as if he were Vicente's biological father, a child who later refuses to study...

The texts of this volume speak of vital experiences, of the readings and the authors that influenced the future writer, of his adventures as a teacher, of his activity as a translator. Here the reader will find young loves and desires, fatherhood and the...