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PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 24/10/2024
How do we write about the singular experience of parenthood? Written in a `state of attachment', or `under the influence' of fatherhood,?Childish Literature?is an eclectic guide for novice parents, showing how the birth and growth of a child changes not only the present and the future, but also reshapes our perceptions of the past. Shifting from moving dispatches from his son's first year of existence, to a treatise on `football sadness', to a psychedelic narrative where a man tries, mid-magic mushroom trip, to re-learn the subtle art of crawling, this latest work from Alejandro Zambra shows how children shield adults from despondency, self-absorption and the tyrannies of chronological time. At once a chronicle of fatherhood, a letter to a child and a work of fiction,?Childish Literature?is the latest, virtuosic addition to the oeuvre of one of the most exciting Latin American writers in recent decades.Binding: Paperback / softback