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Marcela Valdes

Marcela Valdes is a contributing editor at Publishers Weekly. She is at work on a book about Chile. Her last piece for The Nation was "Alone Among the Ghosts."

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Seed Projects: The Fiction of Alejandro Zambra (Regions and Countries, Fiction)

Does Alejandro Zambra's Bonsai mark the end of an era in Chilean literature?

Marcela Valdes
Alone Among the Ghosts: Roberto Bolano's '2666' (Regions and Countries, Fiction)

Roberto Bolaño's last novel, 2666, is his most profound exploration of art and infamy, craft and crime, the writer and the totalitarian state.

Marcela Valdes
Windows Into the Night (Essays, Non-fiction)

The collected nonfiction of Roberto Bolaño is a treasure trove filled with straw and dust, jewels and gold.

Marcela Valdes
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Rules of the Game (Regions and Countries, Fiction)

A fresh translation of a Portuguese classic offers a poignant portrait of a country's decline.

Marcela Valdes