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The Private Lives of Trees
Alejandro Zambra
(Open Letter)
At just a few pages shy of a hundred, this little book, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, can be read in one sitting yet reexamined in a thousand. Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra (b. 1975) takes you on the journey of a single evening, fraught with anxiety as main character Julián passes the stretching time waiting for his wife, Verónica, to return home by reading his...