A review by eniatea
Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra

medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This?! This “represents the end of an era, or the beginning of another in [Chile’s] letters”?! this is yet another man masturbating on his own importance while the women in the book are reduced to, at best, set dressing. 
I guess it gets a one star for being only 80 pages and another for being kinda writerly in its sentence construction. I would be really mad if I was forced to read a novel-length version of this.