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“A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent…[Chilean Poet]broadens the author’s scope and quite likely his international reputation.” —Los Angeles Times
After 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.
Eventually, 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 Bolaos, 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?InChilean Poet, 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.

Alejandro Zambrais the author of ten books, includingMultiple Choice;Bonsai;The Private Lives of Trees; andMy Documents, 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 inThe New Yorker,The New York Times Magazine,The Paris Review, andHarper’s Magazine, among other publications. He lives in Mexico City.
Megan McDowell (translator) 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

• Publisher:Penguin Books
  Publish Date:February 14, 2023
  Pages:368
  Dimensions:5.4 X 8.3 X 1.0 inches | 0.75 pounds
  Language:English
  Type:Paperback
  EAN/UPC:9780143109204
  BISAC Categories:Literary -Family Life – General -Hispanic & Latino