The private lives of trees
The story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julian is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Veronica to return from her art class. Each night, Julian has been improvising a bedtime story for Daniela - and each Sunday working on a novel about a...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, New York :
Open Letter,
2010.
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| Summary: | The story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julian is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Veronica to return from her art class. Each night, Julian has been improvising a bedtime story for Daniela - and each Sunday working on a novel about a man tending to his bonsai - but something about this night is different. |
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| Physical Description: | 98 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781934824245 1934824240 |
| Author Notes: | Alejandro Zambra was named as one of Granta 's "Best Young Spanish-language Novelists." He is the author of three novels, including Bonsai , which was made into a film, and Ways of Going Home. Megan McDowell received her Master's Degree in Literary Translation from the University of Texas at Dallas. In addition to two books by Alejandro Zambra, she has translated Under This Terrible Sun by Carlos Busqued and La Vida Doble by Arturo Fontaine. |
