(The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Juli�n is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Ver�nica to return from her art class. Each night, Juli�n 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 Juli�n becomes increasing concerned that Ver�nica 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. Perhaps even more daring and dizzying than Zambra's magical Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees demands to be read in a single sitting, and it casts a spell that will bring you back to it again and again.

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