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Availability:In StockContributor:Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell (Translator)Publish date:2024-10-08Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143138082ISBN-10:143138081UPC:9780143138082Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family Life, HumorousSize:7.80 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC20ZKG2Z4
"Hopeful, funny, and full of wisdom. A meditation on fatherhood by one of our most perceptive writers." --Tara Westover, author of Educated

From the author of My Documents and Chilean Poet, a wise, humorous, and captivating literary exploration of the delights and absurdities of childhood, fatherhood, and family life

Childish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of fatherhood, a transformative experience that reshapes and enlivens the author's relationship to aging, intimacy, and time. Written in Alejandro Zambra's brilliantly warm, playful, and philosophical voice, these pieces explore the lives of families and their stories through a wide variety of topics--from screen time and "soccer sadness" to personal libraries, fishing, and psychedelics. Throughout, Zambra captures the texture of daily life and deep truths about how we feel and live, with particular insight into the ways parents and children challenge, enrich, and entertain each other.

Simultaneously lighthearted and profound, and brilliantly rendered by National Book Award-winning translator Megan McDowell, Childish Literature is an intimate and unclassifiable new work by an internationally celebrated writer.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143138082ISBN-10:143138081UPC:9780143138082Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family Life, HumorousSize:7.80 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC20ZKG2Z4
Alejandro Zambra is the author of ten books, including Chilean Poet and Multiple Choice. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, as well as a New York Public Library Cullman Center fellowship, he has published fiction and essays in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Harper's Magazine, among other publications. He lives in Mexico City.

Megan McDowell (translator) is the winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translation and the recipient of a 2020 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other awards. She has been nominated four times for the International Booker Prize.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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