Chilean poet : a novel /
Nine years after their bewildering breakup, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his high school girlfriend, Carla, now the mother of 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. After a few years, their ambitions...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First English language edition. |
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| Summary: | Nine years after their bewildering breakup, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his high school girlfriend, Carla, now the mother of 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. After a few years, their ambitions pull the lovers in different directions, but traces of Gonzalo remain: Vicente inherits his love of poetry. When, at eighteen, he 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 Bolaos, but rather the living, everyday poets, who are also a kind of family. By the time Pru's article is published, Gonzalo has returned to Chile. But will he and Vicente find their way back to one another? |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Spain as Poeta Chileno by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, in 2020. ... Copyright © 2020 by Alejandro Zambra. Translation copyright © 2022 by Megan McDowell." -- Verso. |
| Physical Description: | 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780593297940 0593297946 |