My Documents

"In My Documents, a collection of 11 stories translated by Megan McDowell, Alejandro Zambra tells stories as only he can. He finds the foundations for his most enthralling work in the complex ties between fathers and sons, nations and their people, and, especially, hapless lovers. To read Zambra and a collection like My Documents is to engage with someone who writes as though the burden of history was upon him and no one else — the history of his country of Chile, of literature and of humanity’s shared experience. Put simply, the novel is a force, and further proof that the author is in a class of his own."