"Zambra is indeed the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction."--Marcela Valdes, The Nation 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...