Short story books set in Chile (6)
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Bonsái & La vida privada de los árboles by Alejandro Zambra ES
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
Condenado a la seriedad y a la impostura, Julio, el silencioso protagonista de Bonsái – la novela que supuso el brillante debut narrativo de Alejandro Zambra– acaba convenciéndose de que es mejor encerrarse en su cuarto a observar el crecimiento de un bonsái que vagar por los incómodos caminos de la literatura. En La vida privada de los árboles, segunda novela del autor, Verónica se demora inexplicablemente y el libro sigue hasta que ella regrese o hasta que Julián esté seguro de que ya no volverá. ¿Por qué leer y escribir libros en un mundo a punto de quebrarse? Esta pregunta ronda las dos ob... continue
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Ten Women by Marcela Serrano EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
Award-winning Chilean author Marcela Serrano weaves a beautiful story about the universal connections between women. For nine Chilean women, life couldn't be more different. There is the teenage computer whiz confronting her sexual identity. A middle-aged recluse who prefers the company of her dog over that of most humans. A housekeeper. A celebrity television personality. A woman confronting the loneliness of old age. Of disparate ages and races, these women represent the variety of cultural and social groups that Chile comprises. On the surface, they seem to have nothing in common...except f... continue
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Cars on Fire by Monica Ramon Rios EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
With stories focused on the lives of marginalized people, Cars on Fire transmutes loss and pain into an ode about the multiplicity of love.
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Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolaño EN
Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors" takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year... continue
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Country: South America / Chile
Chile
Description:
On a long, near-silent drive with his father, a young man surveys the worn-out puzzle of his broken family.