Chilean Poet Alejandro Zambra, trans. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. Viking, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-29794-0 ...

NORWALK — In Ana Cecilia Zapata’s small home village, San Jeronimo, just north of Medellin, Colombia, which she called a “little paradise,” her grandmother was the town storyteller. It was ...