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. Whether chronicling the attempts of a migraine-afflicted writer to quit smoking or the loneliness of the call-centre worker, the life of a personal computer or the return of a mercurial godson, this collection of stories evokes the disenchantments of youth and the disillusions of maturity in a Chilean society still troubled by its recent past. Written with the author's trademark irony and precision, humour and melancholy, My Documents is unflinchingly human and essential evidence of a sublimely talented writer working at the height of his powers.
Industry Reviews
'These stories are graceful, grave, comical, disabused. I guess what I mean is: My Documents represents a new form. When I think about Alejandro Zambra, I feel happy for the future of fiction.' - Adam Thirlwell, author of Lurid and Cute 'Zambra belongs to that rare species of writers that bring language back to life. The strength of this novel, its potency, is in the way it unfolds language in order to place its readers at that almost ungraspable intersection between individual and collective history.' - Valeria Luiselli, author of Faces in the Crowd 'Zambra is one of the writers of my generation that I most admire. Never a wasted word. Never a false note. His is an utterly unique voice, one I go back to again and again' - Daniel Alarcon, author of At Night We Walk in Circles 'Zambra's unmistakable and undefeatable voice [is] a voice that only sounds like itself, but through great art, occasionally ends up sounding like the voice of us all.' - Alvaro Bisama, Que Pasa 'The "last truly great book" I read has to be Alejandro Zambra's Bonsai. A subtle, eerie, ultimately wrenching account of failed young love in Chile among the kind of smartypant set who pillow-talk about the importance of Proust - A total knockout.' - Junot Diaz
