My documents
By: Alejandro Zambra ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell
Contributors: McDowell, Megan, translator
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781940450520
Subjects: Chilean literature; Translations into English; Chilean Short stories
Work titles: Mis documentos
Description: "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."--Provided from Amazon.com.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. My documents; title: Part 2. Camilo; title: Long distance; title: True or false; title: Memories of a personal computer; title: Part 3. National institute; title: I smoked very well; title: Part 4. Thank you; title: The most Chilean man in the world; title: Family life; title: Artist's rendition.