{"product_id":"9780974888187","title":"In Spite of the Dark Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"He was named Jorge, like me, and for this his life hurts me twice.\" So writes Jorge Volpi in this highly original novel that presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders of Los Contemporáneos, an influential twentieth-century literary movement. The poetic voice of Cuesta's verses can be heard throughout, offering insights into the creative and destructive forces and impulses in his work that eventually led to a mental ward—and a shocking suicide at thirty-eight. The fictional \"Jorge,\" as narrator, embarks on an obsessive quest to understand the life of the long-dead poet, with the distance between subject and researcher blurring as he finds himself struggling to understand his own life. It is a brave search for anyone willing to gaze into the mirror of mortality \"in spite of the dark silence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swan Isle Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009836695792,"sku":"9780974888187","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780974888187_p0.jpg?v=1763881828","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780974888187","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}