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Sublime true and beautiful and movingThe New York Times Book Review

The landmark first novel of one of the greatest living Latin American writersnow in a sparkling new translation by his longtime collaborator

When it was first published in 2006 thenliterary critic and poet Alejandro Zambras first novel Bonsai caused a sensation It was said according to Chiles newspaper of record El Mercurio that it represented the end of an era or the beginning of another in the nations letters Zambra would go on to become a writer of international renown winning prizes in Chile and around the world for his funny tender sly fictions

Here in a brilliant new translation from fourtime International Booker Prize nominee Megan McDowell is the little book that started it all The story of Julio and Emilia two Chilean university students who seeking truth in great literature find one another instead As they fall together and drift apart over the course of young adulthood Zambra spins an emotionally engrossing expertly distilled formally inventive tale of love art and memory