{"product_id":"the-arid-sky-paperback","title":"The Arid Sky - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmiliano Monge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eThomas Bunstead\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This dark, sprawling novel is the English language debut of Emiliano Monge, a Mexican writer who is often compared to the US literary superstar Cormac McCarthy. Written in a tone that evokes McCarthy's unrelenting classic \u003ci\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e, the novel tells the story of Germ n Alc ntara Carnero, a dangerous campesino fighting to survive in rural 20th century Mexico, and also a metaphor for the spiraling violence of contemporary Mexican society.\" --Culture Trip\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet on a desolate, unnamed mesa, Emiliano Monge's \u003ci\u003eThe Arid Sky\u003c\/i\u003e distills the essence of a Latin America ruthlessly hollowed out by uncontainable violence. This is an unsparing yet magnificent land, whose only constants are loneliness, hatred, loyalty, and the struggle to return some small measure of meaning to life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThundering and inventive, \u003ci\u003eThe Arid Sky \u003c\/i\u003enarrates the signature moments in the life of Germ n Alcantara Carnero: a man who is both exaltedly, viscerally real and is an ageless, nameless being capable of embodying entire eras, cultures, and conflicts. Monge's roadmap--an escape across borders, the disappearance of a young girl, the confrontation between a father and his son, the birth of a sick child, and murder--takes readers on a journey to the core of humankind that posits a challenge of the kind only great literature can pose.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmiliano Monge\u003c\/b\u003e (Mexico City, 1978) studied Political Science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he also taught until his move to Barcelona, where he currently resides. Though he has worked as a book and magazine editor, at present, he fully dedicates his time to this writing. His first short story collection, \u003ci\u003eArrastrar esa sombra\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2008, followed by the novel \u003ci\u003eMorirse de memoria\u003c\/i\u003e; both were finalists for the Antonin Artaud award. With a wide array of non-fiction essays, reportage, and book reviews, he has been an ongoing contributor to the Spanish newspaper \u003ci\u003eEl País\u003c\/i\u003e, the Mexican newspaper \u003ci\u003eReforma\u003c\/i\u003e, and prestigious magazines such as \u003ci\u003eLetras Libres\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGatopardo\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the two-time recipient of the Conaculta award Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, and is now a member of the \"Orden del Finnegans\", a group of Spanish writers that gather annually on Bloomsday in Dublin in honour of Joyce's \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2011, the Guadalajara International Book Fair chose him as one of the top 25 best-kept secrets in contemporary Latin American literature, and in 2013 was awarded the Corte Inglés prize \"Otros ámbitos, otras voces\". Last but not least, he was selected for \"México20\", a list of twenty important young Mexican authors (chosen by The British Council, the FIL, Hay Festival, Conaculta) who will be the guests of honour at the upcoming London Book Fair, with their work featured in an anthology to be published by Pushkin Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Bunstead\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator based in East Sussex, England. He has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, including Agustín Fernández Mallo, Enrique Vila-Matas and Juan Villoro, and his own writing has appeared in publications such as \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an editor at the literary translation journal \u003ci\u003eIn Other Words\u003c\/i\u003e. 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