{"product_id":"private-lives-of-trees-the","title":"Private Lives of Trees, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eZambra is indeed the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction.--Marcela Valdes, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Private Lives of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Juli n is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Ver nica to return from her art class. Each night, Juli n has been improvising a story about trees to tell Daniela before she goes to sleep, and each Sunday he works on a novel about a man tending to his bonsai, but something about this night is different. As Juli n becomes increasing concerned that Ver nica won't return, he reflects on their life together in minute detail, and imagines what Daniela--at twenty, at twenty-five, at thirty years old, without a mother--will think of his novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps even more daring and dizzying than Zambra's magical Bonsai, \u003ci\u003eThe Private Lives of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e demands to be read in a single sitting, and it casts a spell that will bring you back to it again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlejandro Zambra\u003c\/b\u003e was named as one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Young Spanish-language Novelists. He is the author of three novels, including \u003ci\u003eBonsai\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a film, and \u003ci\u003eWays of Going Home.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan McDowell\u003c\/b\u003e received her Master's Degree in Literary Translation from the University of Texas at Dallas. In addition to two books by Alejandro Zambra, she has translated \u003ci\u003eUnder This Terrible Sun\u003c\/i\u003e by Carlos Busqued and \u003ci\u003eLa Vida Doble\u003c\/i\u003e by Arturo Fontaine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33013806104676,"sku":"9781934824245","price":11.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/private-lives-of-trees-the","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}