- FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Literary, Multiple-choice examinations, Apathy
"NAMED ONE OF THEBEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, ELLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST AND PUREWOW "Latin America's new literary star." --The New Yorker "Brilliant.
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Prestige, character-led, formally daring and open-ended.
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Alejandro Zambra
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143109198
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