Childish Literature

Description

Childish Literature
by Alejandro Zambra

ISBN: 9780143138082
Softcover, new

Brief Description:
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.