{"product_id":"chilean-poet-9780143109204","title":"Chilean Poet","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eWALL STREET JOURNAL \u003c\/i\u003eTOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e ONE OF NPR'S \"BOOKS WE LOVE\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent...[\u003ci\u003eChilean Poet\u003c\/i\u003e]\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebroadens the author's scope and quite likely his international reputation.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA writer of \"startling talent\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEventually, 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChilean Poet\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143109204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Alejandro Zambra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42567525138613,"sku":"9780143109204","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_02d80ae6-4b05-4497-b563-e471dfc48102.jpg?v=1671551398","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/chilean-poet-9780143109204","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}