Named a best book of 2015 by NPR, The Boston Globe, and Electric Literature.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.
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