Bonsai A Novel

Winner of Chile s Literary Critics Award for Best Novel

Lively, often funny and aphoristic . . . [Bonsai] holds stories within stories. James Wood, The New Yorker
 
Readers who consider Roberto Bolaño the pole star of contemporary Chilean fiction will be jolted by Zambra's little book . . . Zambra is indeed the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction. The Nation
 
A subtle, eerie, ultimately wrenching account of failed young love . . . A total knockout.   Junot Díaz, The New York Times Book Review

Bonsai has been praised the world over . . . this is the perfect time to discover (or re-discover) it. Not a single word is wasted in this powerful, elegantly told story. LitHub

A highly original work, full of unforgettable sparks of humor . . . brief as a sigh and forceful as a blow. El Capital
 
A literary creation of the highest order . . . Bonsai is an exquisitely articulated work . . . an unclassifiable object of unusual beauty . . . one of the two or three best Chilean novels of recent times. Las Últimas Noticias
 
[U]ndeniably fascinating . . . the kind of story that lingers in the mind for weeks after being read.   The Quarterly Conversation

What is remarkable about Zambra s novella is the space between ending and beginning the progressive prose that relates a true story with emotional and artistic implications extending far beyond its concise pages.   Bookslut

Bonsai is an appealing miniature, a novella that, despite its brevity, feels airy and full an enjoyable, pleasantly surprising, and clever read.   The Complete Review

It is often said of a book that it is worth reading; rarely, as in [Bonsai s] case, will it be enjoyed even more in its rereading. ABC España
 
[Bonsai] is literature of the best kind, a work of strange maturity that makes brevity one of its greatest virtues, due to how much can be said and above all suggested in so few pages. El Mercurio