{"product_id":"9781934824245","title":"The Private Lives of Trees","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Zambra is indeed the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Marcela Valdes, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Private Lives of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julián is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Verónica to return from her art class. Each night, Julián has been improvising a story about trees to tell Daniela before she goes to sleep, and each Sunday he works on a novel about a man tending to his bonsai, but something about this night is different. As Julián becomes increasing concerned that Verónica won’t return, he reflects on their life together in minute detail, and imagines what Daniela—at twenty, at twenty-five, at thirty years old, without a mother—will think of his novel.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePerhaps even more daring and dizzying than Zambra's magical \u003ci\u003eBonsai, The Private Lives of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e demands to be read in a single sitting, and it casts a spell that will bring you back to it again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Letter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039644172528,"sku":"9781934824245","price":8.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934824245_p0.jpg?v=1763655535","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934824245","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}