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\"\"<\/a>This in-person reading will take place at the Brockman Hall for Opera at Rice University, and will be available to season subscribers for viewing on the Inprint website.
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EVENT DETAILS:<\/strong>\u00a0Hernan Diaz<\/strong> and Alejandro Zambra<\/strong> will give a brief readings from their new novels\u00a0Trust <\/em>and Chilean Poet<\/em>, followed by an on-stage conversation with Mark Haber, <\/strong>Bookseller at Brazos Bookstore, and a book sale and signing.<\/p>\n

Free parking will be available in West Lot #2, which can be accessed via Rice Boulevard, Entrance #18. For a map with the parking location, click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Born in Argentina and raised in Sweden, HERNAN DIAZ<\/strong> is a celebrated fiction writer whose debut novel In the Distance<\/em> was called \u201can original Western\u201d that is \u201cbound to live on as a classic\u201d (The New York Times<\/em>). An instant success, In the Distance<\/em> was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award and winner of a Whiting Award and the Saroyan International Prize for \u201ca gorgeously written novel that charts one man\u2019s growth from boyhood to mythic status as he journeys between continents and the extremes of the human condition\u201d (Pulitzer Prize finalist citation). \u201cA page-turning adventure story that\u2019s also a profound meditation on solitude and companionship, foreignness, and home,\u201d says The Guardian,<\/em> \u201cOne of the many delights of In the Distance<\/em> is the way the writing oscillates between the austere and the lyrical, the realistic and the dream-like.\u201d Diaz is also the author of the nonfiction book Borges, between History and Eternity<\/em> and edits the Spanish academic journal Revista Hisp\u00e1nica Moderna. <\/em>He has published essays and short stories in The New York Times, The Paris Review,<\/em> Cabinet,<\/em> Kenyon Review,<\/em> Granta,<\/em> and elsewhere. Diaz will read from and talk about his new novel Trust,<\/em> a story of wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, and truth and perception in 1920s New York City. Chronicling the controversial marriage of a Wall Street tycoon and the daughter of a penniless aristocrat, Trust <\/em>explores how power and money can manipulate facts and reality. Diaz, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, is the Associate Director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University.<\/p>\n

\"\"ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA<\/strong> \u2013 Chilean novelist, short story writer, and poet \u2013 is \u201cthe defining light of today\u2019s Latin American literature\u201d (John Wray). His debut novel Bonsai <\/em>was the winner of the Chilean Critics Award and the film adaptation was presented at the Cannes Film Festival. Also the author of the novels The Private Life of Trees <\/em>and Ways of Going Home<\/em>, Zambra was named one of Granta\u2019s<\/em> \u201cBest Young Spanish-Language Novelists\u201d and was included on the distinguished Bogot\u00e139<\/em> list. He is also well known for his story collection My Documents<\/em>, which was a finalist for the Frank O\u2019Connor International Short Story Award and \u201cconveys with striking honesty what it\u2019s like to be Chilean today\u201d (Publishers Weekly<\/em>). Zambra\u2019s Multiple Choice<\/em> extends this reflection in the form of a standardized test, chronicling his childhood under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. About Multiple Choice<\/em>, Valeria Luiselli writes, \u201cWhen I read Zambra I feel like someone\u2019s shooting fireworks inside my head. His prose is as compact as a grain of gunpowder, but its allusions and ramifications branch out and illuminate even the most remote corners of our minds.\u201d His essays and short stories have appeared in The\u00a0New Yorker,\u00a0The New York Times Magazine,\u00a0The\u00a0Paris Review,<\/em>\u00a0Harper\u2019s,<\/em>\u00a0and elsewhere. Zambra joins us to read from and talk about his new novel Chilean Poet<\/em>, translated by Megan McDowell. Said to be the most substantial work of his career, Chilean Poet<\/em> is a moving story about fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and the many forms of family. The reception has been enthusiastic \u2013 El Pa\u00eds<\/em> calls it \u201cexemplary, humorous, and moving\u201d; and in Letras Libres<\/em>, Rodrigo Fres\u00e1n sees it as \u201cthe Great Chilean Novel about the poetry of his generation.\u201d Will Corral in World Literature Today<\/em> describes it as \u201ca charming, very rare, and disconcerting tribute to the poet\u2019s vocation\u2026. one of the two masterpieces of this century by his selected cohort, and Zambra is just getting started.\u201d He lives in Mexico City.<\/p>\n

\"\"MARK HABER<\/strong> is the operations manager and a bookseller at Brazos Bookstore. His debut novel, Reinhardt’s Garden<\/i>, was nominated for the 2020 PEN\/Hemingway award for debut novel. 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