Description
In Santiago, during a winter that feels both intimate and unforgiving, aspiring poet Gonzalo reconnects with his first love, Carla, after a chance encounter that reawakens old longing. As their lives shift—through time, family, and the complicated tenderness of commitment—Gonzalo’s role expands from lover to stepfather, drawing him into the daily work of care, authorship, and belonging. Told with Alejandro Zambra’s sharp, humane wit and lyrical precision, the novel follows the evolving relationship between Gonzalo and Carla’s son Vicente, where poetry becomes both a language of feeling and a way to measure what can—and cannot—be fully explained. At its core, this is a story about love’s afterlives, the chosen and inherited bonds of family, and the quiet, sometimes comic negotiations of identity in the spaces between “mine” and “ours.”
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hardcover
Viking
Published Feb 15, 2022
368 pages
ISBN: 9780593297940
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First Published
2022
Language
eng
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