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Summary:

"The internationally acclaimed author, heralded as one of the most important writers of his generation, returns with the most substantial work of his career: an emotionally captivating, very funny novel about fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and the many forms of family"-- [Provided by publisher]
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?

Author/Creator:

Zambra, Alejandro, 1975- , author

Contributors:

McDowell, Megan , translator

Languages:

English
Spanish

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Translated from (original): Spanish

Main Work:

Poeta chileno [by Zambra, A.] (English)

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Chilean poet [by Zambra, A.] (New York : Viking, [2022] — ISBN 9781101992180; LCCN 2021038784)

Subjects:

Poets, Chilean — Fiction

Families — Fiction

Stepfamilies — Fiction

Fathers and sons — Fiction

Interpersonal relations — Fiction

General Notes:

"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.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PQ8098.36.A43 P6413 2022eb

ISBNs:

9781101992180 (electronic bk.)
1101992182 (electronic bk.)
9780593297940 [Invalid]
0593297946 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1263246671

Other Control Numbers:

2960100 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302696631