Alejandro Zambra
Alejandro Zambra was born in Santiago, Chile in 1975. He is the author of two books of poems, Bahía Inútil and Mudanza; a collection of essays, No leer; and three novels, Bonsái, which was awarded a Chilean Critics Award for best novel, The Private Lives of Trees, and Ways of Going Home, which was awarded the Altazor Prize, selected by The National Book Council as the best Chilean novel published during 2012, and won an English Pen Award. He was selected as one of Granta‘s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists and was elected to the Bogotá39 list.
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Reading Comprehension: Text No. 2
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‘Which of the following famous phrases best reflects the meaning of the text?’
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Searching for Pavese
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1 ‘I could go to the town where Cesare Pavese was born,’ I had told...
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Introducing Daniel Galera
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‘It’s hard to introduce Daniel Galera’s tale without resorting to adjectives that are more likely to arouse distrust than interest.’
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Ways of Going Home
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‘It was hard for me to understand how someone could live alone.’