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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 Díaz 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.
- Sales Rank: #366561 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-01-19
- Released on: 2015-01-19
- Format: Kindle eBook
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One of The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2015.
Shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
Included in The Millions Most Anticipated for 2015.
Included in BuzzFeed's Most Exciting Books of 2015 from Independent Publishers.
A Publishers Weekly pick of the week.
“...at once metafictional and vibrantly turned out to the world. Zambra reflects on the obligations of writing fiction in a country tormented by heavy political realities (he was born in 1975, two years after the coup that brought down President Salvador Allende and installed the murderous General Augusto Pinochet), and “My Documents” is full of wonderful, sparkling, vital human details.”
—James Wood, The New Yorker's "The Books I Loved in 2015"
"This dynamite collection of stories has it all—Chile and Belgium, exile and homecomings, Pinochet and Simon and Garfunkel—but what I love most about the tales is their strangeness, their intelligence, and their splendid honesty.” —Junot Díaz
"In his new book, Zambra returns to the twin sources of his talent—to his storytelling vitality, that living tree which blossoms often in these pages, and to his unsparing examination of recent Chilean history."—The New Yorker
"Zambra more than delivers with his latest. He's a thoughtful craftsman, brick by brick laying the foundation for works that transcend continents and labels. Let us now forget the smallness of simply spearheading a new Latin American fiction. My Documents goes beyond that, burning brighter than most anything we'd call exceptional, yesterday or today and in any language."—NPR
"The stories gathered in My Documents might be pulled straight from Zambra’s computer files; despite their polish, they are pleasingly miscellaneous, unmediated… Zambra knows how to turn the familiar inside out, but he also knows how to wrap us up in it. These generous stories satisfy our demand for narrative even as they question it.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Times
"Zambra’s stories convey with striking honesty what it’s like to be Chilean today" —Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
"Zambra’s dazzlingly funny and playful collection of tales makes clear that to fully comprehend Chilean history one must entertain a sense of the surreal." —The Boston Globe
"Sentence-by-sentence pleasure… [Zambra's] most substantial achievement yet." —The Seattle Times
"In this excellent collection, as in all his work, memory is put under a microscope, and the division between author and characters is never certain… Zambra’s stories are always—or always allege to be—acts of remembrance, and the care he takes to let his readers know that suggests something distinctive about his method.” —The Guardian
"Much like Junot Díaz’s Drown, the stories in Chilean author Zambra’s collection are discrete tales that blend together with an impressive fluidity. Zambra’s characters, who have many of the same personal habits (smoking, listening to ’80s pop) and secret predilections (writing poetry, experimenting sexually), seem part of a big, fragmented novel. Through 11 stories, the author’s charming cast examines religion, soccer, relationships, and the lure of solitude—all from a distinctly Chilean perspective. But the view is also a youthful one, neatly capturing the puzzling process of trying to figure out who you really are. A–" —Entertainment Weekly
"Zambra is a direct literary descendant of his older, late compatriot Bolaño. He serves us black, urgent humor with a quotidian casualness, a deceptive simplicity that has no room for the fantastical, the magical, or the exuberant New World celebrations of, say, Neruda or Walt Whitman. The single thread of belief for some of Zambra’s protagonists is literature itself and its ability, through plain, naked language, to present life as it is felt and lived… Zambra’s work possesses a historical sadness that has no time for the gloss of nostalgia. It’s a literature that believes in itself, even when it’s mired in despair.” —Bookforum
“[M]emorable and masterful”—The Harvard Crimson
“Touching” —Wall Street Journal
“Zambra finds beauty in the anguish, meaning in the mundane and an elemental spark of fire in even the flintiest parts of our human hearts.”—Denver Post
"This dynamite collection of stories has it all—Chile and Belgium, exile and homecomings, Pinochet and Simon and Garfunkel—but what I love most about the tales is their strangeness, their intelligence, and their splendid honesty.” —Junot Díaz
“Zambra’s latest is also his best… A truly beautiful book.” —Daniel Alarcón
“Full of brilliance. This is a new Latin American literature.” —Mona Simpson
“My Documents is an act of literary levitation—luminous, magical and profound, written with the mysterious quality of weightlessness.” —Jess Walter
“Zambra is so alert to the intimate beauty and mystery of being alive that in his hands a raindrop would feel as wide as a world.” —Anthony Marra
“My Documents represents a new form. When I think about Zambra, I feel happy for the future of fiction.” —Adam Thirlwell
“Zambra is the author of small classics—short in length, but enormous in every other way.My Documents elevates him to an entirely new level.” —Valeria Luiselli
“Zambra is one of my favorite living writers. He brings such clarity, exactitude, compassion, oddity, and inventiveness to his books that every new volume he publishes goes on my read-this-immediately list.” —Kevin Brockmeier
“[Zambra’s] best book.” —Flavorwire
“What distinguishes Alejandro from his contemporaries is the sweetness and intimacy of his writing, and his confidence in letting himself be as he is.”—Vice
“Exceedingly well told… My Documents forces a reader to contemplate what makes a novel cohere, and where we draw the lines between autobiography and fiction, author and subject… translated expertly by Megan McDowell.” —Barnes and Noble Review
"Zambra has enormous skill for conveying lush emotional landscapes with stripped and distant language.” —Electric Literature
"Winningly arch and unusual takes on common household predicaments."—Kirkus
"[Alejandro] Zambra continues to portray in his writing the depth of feeling that humans bring forth in each other… Zambra’s impeccable style and knowledge of humanity are central to these 11 stories." —Booklist
"Extraordinary … these pages are animated by candid, familiar voices in whose recollections we become gently imbricated." —Words Without Borders
“[His] best work ever.” —Roberto Careaga C., La Tercera
“The work of an author capable of creating outstanding stories, some of which… could form part of any collection of the best writers in Spanish of the last few decades. —Patricio Pron, ABC
“The first thing that should be said about My Documents is that it is one of those books that is difficult to categorize, but it is in this indefinable nature that its intrinsic value resides.” —Iñaki Ezkerra, El Correo Español
About the Author
Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean novelist and poet. He is the author of three novels: Ways of Going Home, The Private Lives of Trees, and Bonsai, which was awarded Chile’s Literary Critics’ Award for Best Novel. His writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Tin House, Harper’s, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, among other places. In 2010, he was selected as one of the Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists by Granta. He currently teaches literature at the Diego Portales University in Santiago.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
“My father was a computer, my mother a typewriter. I was a blank page, and now I am a book.”
By Mary Whipple
In what appears to be a series of autobiographical episodes, Chilean author Alejandro Zambra creates eleven stories so firmly grounded in reality and filled with lively detail that they seem to be from his own life, though it is impossible to know for sure. In several stories, the author conveys the feelings at the heart of parent-child relationships, from the points of view of both, while political revolution and trauma lurk in the background throughout all the stories. As he wrestles with his stories and how to present the life in Chile during this tumultuous period in the late twentieth century, the author also contributes much to our understanding of the art of writing itself. Ultimately, these intense, compressed, clear, and unpretentious stories breathe with quiet life, focused on reality as a simple, if sometimes heart-breaking, concept.
The long opening story, “My Documents,” clearly establishes the time, place, characters, and atmosphere by introducing the main character at age five, when, in 1980, the speaker sees a computer for the first time, an enormous machine used by his father, quite different from the black Olivetti on which his mother does her typing work. He continues describing his childhood, from playing at the computer trying to imitate drumrolls, to his Catholic education, the music of Simon and Garfunkel, and local competitions in kite-flying. When he is eleven, he learns of Augusto Pinochet’s human rights abuses of citizens who were arrested, tortured, murdered, or disappeared, a trauma which echoes throughout all the stories.
The story “Camilo” follows a similar pattern in that it begins when the speaker is very young and ends decades later. The speaker is nine when Camilo shows up at their gate and explains that he is the speaker’s father’s godson. Though Camilo and the speaker have little in common, Camilo is a gregarious teenage friend who soon becomes “a benevolent and protective presence,” helping the speaker with some personal issues. Moving and thoughtful, the story carries a message about time and chance which will resonate with readers. Subsequent stories illustrate the fact that most of us are alone most of the time. “True or False,” concerns a divorced man whose son visits every two weeks. The boy considers his father’s house to be the “false house” and his mother’s house to be the “true house,” an issue which leads to a surprise conclusion. “I Smoked Very Well,” one of my favorites, is about a writer who decides to give up smoking and discovers that it affects his whole writing process. “Family Life” and “Thank You” deal with situations in which women become victims, sometimes by chance and sometimes because they allow it.
In the six stories told by a first person narrator, Zambra’s characters speak intimately, as if the author is addressing his reader directly, while in the five third person stories the author is more distanced, expanding his themes, ideas, and images beyond the realm of his own life into the wider world. This extraordinary and profound collection makes writing look easy. As the author himself says upon finally completing the collection, “I was a blank page, and now I am a book.” If you love good writing with an unusual series of unpretentious voices, don’t miss this.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Wonderful!
By AuntieKat
"My father was a computer, my mother a typewriter.
I was a blank page, and now I am a book."
He may stand on Bolano's shoulders but Zambra speaks with his own voice.
Looking for all of his books now to read before I read anything else by anyone else.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Good Reading
By Martin Montana
I liked this book a lot. Zambra is expert at the style, i.e., sharing thoughts with the reader while telling a story. Short stories take advantage of Zambra's concise and intelligent talent.
The Mary Whipple reviewer didn't mention the last story in the book Artist's Rendition. It's the only story I found disturbing; a legitimate subject, rape and incest, and done well, but still disturbing. That's why I don't watch horror movies. Not fun to mess up my head. I find it weird that some people like that experience.
I Smoked Very Well was my favorite also. This is an all-time great story. It goes into the fears of so many things that will change if you quit. He must have been collecting smoking tid-bits from other authors for a long time. As Claudia says in Going Home, in the U.S. they don't let you smoke anywhere anymore. As 60 Minutes said last Sunday, everybody in all classes in Ohio are doing heroin now (slight exaggeration).
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