{"product_id":"9780930829438","title":"Níjar Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Juan Goytisolo is one of the most rigorous and original contemporary writers.\"—Mario Vargas Llosa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most brilliant of living writers.\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intimate account of travel in Andalusia during the 1950s, Juan Goytisolo's early, short narrative grimly revisits the province of Almería, still under Franco's rule. The critic Ramón Fernández Palmeral writes: \"More than a mere travelog, Goytisolo bravely chose to report the social and economic life in the Almería of those Franquista years.\" He adds: \"Brave, most of all, because by publishing it, even at first in France, Goytisolo risked being sent to jail.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo this day, the Andalusian tourist bureau highly recommends \u003ci\u003eNíjar Country\u003c\/i\u003e for its keenness and accuracy of observation—human, botanical, linguistic, geographical—so tourists on site and in armchairs may superimpose those still haunting walls graffitied FRANCO, FRANCO, FRANCO on what \u003ci\u003eNíjar Country\u003c\/i\u003e also indicts as \"postcard Spain.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuan Goytisolo\u003c\/b\u003e, Spanish novelist and essayist, was born in Barcelona in 1931. He now lives in Marrakech, Morocco. His most famous novels are \u003ci\u003eMarks of Identity\u003c\/i\u003e (1966), \u003ci\u003eCount Julian\u003c\/i\u003e (1970), and \u003ci\u003eJuan the Landless\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), each of which was banned in Spain until after Franco's death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lumen Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008627589360,"sku":"9780930829438","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780930829438_p0.jpg?v=1763868185","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780930829438","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}