Name: My Documents
ISBN: 9780992974787

Alejandro Zambra

Intimate, mysterious, and uncanny, these stories reveal a mind that is as undeniably singular as it is universal.

My Documents

Gary Homewood

Beautifully paced short stories, arcing from the nostalgically remembered childhood of a quirky family, relationships, menial first jobs, difficult parenting to adulthood. Compelling, interesting thematic links; early desktop computers, recent Chilean politics and history, a love of literature and occasional, frightening, casual violence. Lasting, haunting imagery.

My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot Díaz as “a total knockout.” Now, in his first short story collection, Zambra gives us eleven stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers—brilliant portraits of life in Chile before and after Pinochet. The cumulative effect is that of a novel—or of eleven brief novels, intimate and uncanny, archived until now in a desktop folder innocuously called “My Documents.” Zambra’s remarkable vision and erudition is on full display here; this book offers clear evidence of a sublimely talented writer working at the height of his powers.

My Documents

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