{"id":278616,"date":"2010-06-21T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/06\/21\/found-in-translation-book-group-alejandro-zambras-bonsai\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:31:59","slug":"found-in-translation-book-group-alejandro-zambras-bonsai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/06\/21\/found-in-translation-book-group-alejandro-zambras-bonsai\/","title":{"rendered":"FOUND IN TRANSLATION Book Group \/ Alejandro Zambra&#39;s BONSAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where: 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, California 94117<\/p>\n<p>A prizewinning sensation in Chile, <em>Bonsai<\/em> is the lightest, yet also the most complex, 90 pages you will read this year. Part story of a love affair (yet on the very first page Zambra informs us &#8220;in the end she dies and he remains alone&#8221;), part metafictional game (the protagonist eventually starts to write a novel suspiciously similar to the one we&#8217;re reading), and part meditation on how books are like bonsai trees (they both rely on containers to make sense), this book is perfect for a lengthy discussion. Bonsai has more metaphors and aphorisms than most books twice its length, and we&#8217;ll have a great time discussing this book that had all of Chile reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where: 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, California 94117 A prizewinning sensation in Chile, Bonsai is the lightest, yet also the most complex, 90 pages you will read this year. Part story of a love affair (yet on the very first page Zambra informs us &#8220;in the end she dies and he remains alone&#8221;), part metafictional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348056,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278616\/revisions\/348056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}