{"product_id":"queen-cocaine-paperback","title":"Queen Cocaine - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNuria Amat\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Bush\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the footsteps of a writer persecuted because of his ideas and tortured by his own frustrations, a young Catalan woman embarks on an adventure in the jungles of Colombia where her familiar world shatters and from which nothing emerges unharmed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfronted by solitude in a region where it rains incessantly, she discovers, first in her lover, then in the people around her, the alarming signs of a devastating war. In a narrative that swings between intimacy and horror, she bears witness to a hell in which she abandons everything except the language she has had to reinvent, as her only refuge, to speak about the thousand new faces death has shown her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" . . . the Barcelona-based Catalan author brings an alien sensibility and lush, invented language to \u003cem\u003eQueen Cocaine\u003c\/em\u003e, set in Colombia's war-ravaged countryside. . . . Amat's book is a paranoid fever dream of a peasant novel--heir to those of Rulfo and Fanon, but also Lispector--filtered through the gaze of her doomed outsider.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Amat deftly conjures the funereal landscape of Colombia's Pacific coast--an indifferent sea; intemperate rains; a jungle carpeted with snakes and punctuated by swamps . . . a traumatic forced evacuation of the village near the end adds gravitas to the book, which is an acute, grimly poetic account of a South American heart of darkness.\"--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A happy combination of intelligence and critical insight.\"--Juan Goytisolo, \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn all, a revelatory tale that reads like the testimony of a shell-shocked survivor.\"--\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] apocalyptic novel by Spanish writer Amat . . . A brilliant portrayal of the horrors of drug cultivation; recommended for all general collections, especially where there is an interest in Latin American culture.\"--\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNuria Amat\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Barcelona, where she now lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNuria Amat was born in Barcelona, where she now lives, after having lived in Colombia, Mexico, Berlin, Paris and the United States. She regularly contributes to the Spanish press and her work is made up of novels, stories and essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 6.96 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42690102231103,"sku":"9780872864351","price":16.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1daee71a2debff83eb42fe44e48a2eaa.webp?v=1764987849","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/queen-cocaine-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}