To read Alejandro Zambra is to engage with someone who writes as though the burden of history were upon him and no one else — the history of his country of Chile, of literature, and of humanity’s shared experience. You get it from his pages, a sense that a story must be told, intimately and without reservation.
NPR reviews the new translation of Alejandro Zambra’s My Documents and highlights the collection’s candor.
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