Chilean Poet: A Novel

Alejandro Zambra


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Chilean Poet: A Novel by Alejandro Zambra
In Santiago, Chile, at the beginning of the nineties of the last century, two fifteen-year-olds, Gonzalo and Carla, test life and desire, and have their first sexual relations, marked by exploratory clumsiness. He dreams of being a poet and when she breaks off the relationship, he mails her a succession of short love poems in which he expresses his despair and begins to search for his literary voice. The story could have stopped there, as a mere initiation adolescent adventure, but, nine years later, Gonzalo and Carla bump into each other in a gay bar and a wild reunion takes place in the toilets that ends with both their underwear disappearing down the drain. lavatory. They resume their relationship and soon Gonzalo will discover that she has had a son, Vicente, to whom he will become stepfather for a while...

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