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Alejandro Zambra is a poet, novelist, and literary critic who was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1975.  He was selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists and was elected to the Bogotá39 list and is acclaimed as the greatest writer of Chile’s younger generation. He is also the author of Ways of Going Home and The Private Lives of Trees. Translator CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS was raised in England, Switzerland, and California by Uruguayan parents. Her fiction and literary translations have appeared in ColorLines, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of The Invisible Mountain and Perla.