The Private Lives of Trees

Julian tells improvised bedtime stories about the trees to little Daniela. Her mother, Veronica, is running late from her art class. I love the atmosphere in this novella and the tension in the air because of the waiting for Veronica.

I rarely reread books. But from time to time, there is one that I know, right after the reading, I have to read it again. And this is one of those.

The Private Life of Trees is my first book by Alejandro Zambra, and I'm curious about his other works.

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Details:

• author: Alejandro Zambra
  
• full title: The Private Lives of Trees
  
• genre: literary fiction
• format/type: bookfiction
• country: #Chile
  
• topics: #lovestory, #lifestory
  
• publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
  
• publish date: 07 Feb 2023
  
• pages: 96
  

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙💙

Excerpt from the Book:

About the Author: 

Szilvia Molnar is a writer and the foreign rights director at a New York-based literary agency.

Her writing has been published in Guernica, Lit Hub, Triangle House Review, Two Serious Ladies, The Buenos Aires Review, and Neue Rundschau among others. She is also the author of a chapbook titled Soft Split and has a novel titled The Nursery forthcoming with Pantheon Books.

Originally from Budapest and raised in Sweden, she splits her time between New York City and Austin, Texas.