My Documents: Stories by Zambra, Alejandro

My Documents: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143136521)

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My Documents: Stories by Zambra, Alejandro

My Documents: Stories

$18.00
My Documents: Stories by Zambra, Alejandro

My Documents: Stories

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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The landmark first story collection from internationally acclaimed author Alejandro Zambra, now featuring five additional stories and an introduction by his longtime collaborator, Megan McDowell

An early desktop computer becomes the third partner in a doomed relationship; an older brother figure whose father lives in exile imparts hilarious life lessons to his young protégé. A man attempts to quit smoking despite the fact that he's very good at it; another masquerades as the family man he'll never be. Throughout, Pinochet's dictatorship casts a long shadow, and men in relationships exhibit their profound capacity for both love and harm.

In these unforgettable stories--which span religion, romance, technology, soccer, solitude, and more--Alejandro Zambra unfolds a radical literary reflection on life, relationships, and the tender and brutal dimensions of masculinity in Chile from the 1980s to the present. Intimate and playful, provocative and profound, and brilliantly rendered by National Book Award winning translator Megan McDowell, My Documents a testament to the necessity of literature even--and especially--in times of political and personal crisis.

Author: Alejandro Zambra
ISBN-10: 0143136526
ISBN-13: 9780143136521
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2024
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.64h x 5.04w x 0.71d
By Alejandro Zambra
By Alejandro Zambra
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Alejandro Zambra is the author of ten books, most recently Chilean Poet and Multiple Choice. 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.

Megan McDowell (translator) is the winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translation and the recipient of a 2020 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other awards. She has been nominated four times for the International Booker Prize.

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