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Chilean poet : a novel / Alejandro Zambra ; translated by Megan McDowell.

by Zambra, Alejandro, 1975-

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Poets, Chilean -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Stepfamilies -- Fiction.

Fathers and sons -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

9780593297940 (hc.)

Poeta chileno. English.

1st English-language ed.

358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Originally published in Spain as Poeta Chileno by Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, in 2020. ... Copyright 2020 by Alejandro Zambra. Translation copyright 2022 by Megan McDowell." -- T.p. verso.

Translated from the Spanish.

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?

Domestic fiction.

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.

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