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Name: The Private Lives of Trees

Author: Alejandro Zambra
Year: 2007
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Fiction, Contemporary

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ISBNs:
9781934824245
1934824240

The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julian is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Veronica to return from her art class. Each night, Julian has been improvising a story about trees to tell Daniela before she goes to sleep, and each Sunday he works on a novel about a man tending to his bonsai, but something about this night is different. As Julian becomes increasing concerned that Veronica won't return, he reflects on their life together in minute detail, and imagines what Daniela--at twenty, at twenty-five, at thirty years old, without a mother--will think of his novel. Perhaps even more daring and dizzying than Zambra's magical Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees demands to be read in a single sitting, and it casts a spell that will bring you back to it again and again.