My Documents

By Alejandro Zambra

Book Overview

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 D az 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940450527
• ISBN13: 9781940450520
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.0"