Chilean poet : a novel / Alejandro Zambra ; translated by Megan McDowell.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: [New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First English-language editionDescription: 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593492505
- 0593492501
- 9780593297940
- 0593297946
- Poeta chileno. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | ZAMBRA, ALEJANDR | Available | 33111011035074 |
"Originally published in Spain as Poeta Chileno by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, in 2020. ... Copyright © 2020 by Alejandro Zambra. Translation copyright © 2022 by Megan McDowell." -- Verso.
"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"-- Provided by publisher
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 three form a happy sort-of family--a stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language. After a few years, their ambitions pull the lovers in different directions, but traces of Gonzalo remain: Vicente inherits his love of poetry. When, at eighteen, he 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 Bolaos, but rather the living, everyday poets, who are also a kind of family. By the time Pru's article is published, Gonzalo has returned to Chile. But will he and Vicente find their way back to one another?