{"product_id":"9780872864351","title":"Queen Cocaine: A Novel","description":"\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 \u003ci\u003eQueen Cocaine\u003c\/i\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.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\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.\" — \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A happy combination of intelligence and critical insight.” - Juan Goytisolo, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn all, a revelatory tale that reads like the testimony of a shell-shocked survivor.\" — \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\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.\" — \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eNuria Amat\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Barcelona, where she now lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033297699056,"sku":"9780872864351","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872864351_p0.jpg?v=1763831799","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872864351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}