Alejandro Zambra; Translated by Megan McDowell

A CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC OF LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE: Upon its publication in Chile in 2006, Bonsai caused a sensation: "It was said (or argued) that it represented the end of an era, or the beginning of another, in the nation's letters" (The Nation). Bonsai won Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel, and was adapted into a Chilean film that premiered at Cannes. Dubbed "Latin America's new literary star" by the New Yorker in 2015, Zambra would go on to win numerous international prizes and be translated into 15 languages.

BRILLIANT NEW TRANSLATION: Megan McDowell, Zambra's longtime collaborator who is also known for her recent translations of Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream and Mariana Enríquez's The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (a 2021 International Booker Prize finalist), has retained all the humor, pathos, and charm of the original here.

INTERNATIONAL LITERARY EVENT: With this new translation, jointly commissioned by distinguished independent UK publisher Fitzcarraldo and Penguin, the brilliant debut novel of "the most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño" (The New York Times Book Review) will be widely available throughout the English-speaking world for the very first time.

RENEWED INTEREST IN ZAMBRA: The release of Zambra's new novel, Chilean Poet (Viking, Feb '22), will bring major renewed attention to his work; we will be publishing into a market primed for more Zambra.

MORE PENGUIN REISSUES TO COME: In upcoming seasons, Penguin will also be reissuing Zambra's second novel, The Private Lives of Trees; his highly acclaimed story collection, My Documents; and a book of collected nonfiction, Not to Read.