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  <read_at>Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve mentioned before how lovely Melville House’s Contemporary Art of the Novella series is and have been meaning for some time to read another. Bonsai (2006) by Alejandro Zambra felt like the timely choice, having recently been the focus of an article in The Nation (via The Literary Saloon) and to even the score for Chilean writers, what with Roberto Bolaño getting all the attention. According to The Nation article, “its effect on the world of Chilean literature has been entirely disproportionate to its size.”<br/><br/>It’s a short book, weighing in at eighty-three pages, many blank as they split chapters, allowing the content room to breathe. But within there’s a complete story, a larger story, in fact, bursting to get out. In this it could be said that it resembles the titular bonsai, all the attributes of a larger work condensed into a miniature.<br/><br/>Read my full review <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://booklit.com/blog/2009/06/25/alejandro-zambra-bonsai/">here</a>.]]></body>
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