Título: Chilean Poet: A Novel
Autor: Alejandro Zambra
Sinopse: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE”
“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
“Zambra [is] one of the most brilliant Latin American writers of his generation.” —The New York Review of Books
“Zambra's books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence level, is in a world all his own.” —Juan Vidal, NPR.org
A writer of “startling talent” (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra returns with his most substantial work yet: a story of fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and what it means to make a family
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 Bolaños, 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?
In Chilean 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.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Chilean Poet: A Novel”, de Alejandro Zambra, publicado pela editora Penguin Books, em 2023 e com 368 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Penguin Books
Páginas: 368
Ano: 2023-02-14
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0143109200
ISBN13: 9780143109204
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Penguin Books apresentam uma experiência de leitura que mescla narrativas históricas e biográficas com ficções densas e envolventes, transitando entre realismo social e imaginação literária. O catálogo traz obras que exploram desde investigações jornalísticas detalhadas até relatos de viagens e estudos culturais, com uma linguagem que varia do rigor acadêmico a tons mais acessíveis e líricos. Há uma presença marcante de temas como conflitos pessoais, transformações sociais e questões éticas, frequentemente ambientados em contextos históricos ou geográficos ricos, como Londres vitoriana, África colonial e cidades contemporâneas. O ritmo dos textos pode ser tanto reflexivo e contemplativo quanto tenso e acelerado, dependendo do enfoque narrativo.
