My Documents

\nNamed a best book of 2015 by NPR, <\/strong>The Boston Globe<\/em><\/strong>, and <\/strong>Electric Literature<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>\n<\/div>\nArchived in a folder on award-winning author Alejandro Zambra\'s desktop are 11 stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers. Intimate, mysterious, and uncanny, these stories reveal a mind that is as undeniably singular as it is universal.

Together, they constitute the debut short-story collection from Zambra, whose first novel was heralded as a “bloodletting in Chilean literature.”Whether chronicling the return of a mercurial godson or the disappearance of a trusted cousin, the worlds of these stories are so powerful and deep that the works might better be described as brief novels. My Documents<\/em> is by turns hilarious and heart-stopping, tragic and tender, but most of all, it is unflinchingly human and essential evidence of a sublimely talented writer working at the height of his powers.