{"product_id":"among-strange-victims-paperback","title":"Among Strange Victims - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Saldaña París\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristina Macsweeney\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brief, brilliantly written, and kissed by a sense of the absurd....like a much lazier, Mexico City version of Dostoevsky's Underground Man.\"--\u003cb\u003eJohn Powers, \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Daniel Saldaña París knows how to talk about those other tragedies populating daily life: a boring, unwanted marriage; mind numbing office work; family secrets. He builds on those bricks of tedium a greatly enjoyable and splendidly well-written suburban farce.\" \u003cb\u003e--Yuri Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel. Earthy, playful, and sly, \u003ci\u003eAmong Strange Victims \u003c\/i\u003eis a psychedelic ode to the pleasures of not measuring up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Saldaña París \u003c\/b\u003e(born Mexico City, 1984) is an essayist, poet, and novelist whose work has been translated into English, French, and Swedish and anthologized, most recently in \u003ci\u003eMexico20: New Voices, Old Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e, published in the United Kingdom by Pushkin Press. \u003ci\u003eAmong Strange Victims \u003c\/i\u003eis his first novel to appear in the United States. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Saldaña París (born Mexico City, 1984) is an essayist, poet and novelist whose work has been translated into English, French, and Swedish and anthologized, most recently in \u003ci\u003eMexico20: New Voices, Old Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e, published in the UK by Pushkin Press. Among Strange Victims is his first novel to appear in the US. He lives in Montreal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristina MacSweeney has an MA in literary translation from the University of East Anglia and specializes in Latin American fiction. She has also translated Valeria Luiselli's novels, \u003ci\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, and essay collection, \u003ci\u003eSidewalks\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.7 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 07, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701292699711,"sku":"9781566894302","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2efd9f9d2b4e2f569910170cfa39b56d.webp?v=1765020076","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/among-strange-victims-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}