{"product_id":"9781429935623","title":"Paradise Travel: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of Colombia's leading novelists, a tragicomic story of unrequited love and a view of New York through the wide eyes of an illegal immigrant\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eParadise Travel\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the adventures of Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from Medellín, Colombia, who agrees to accompany the beautiful, ambitious woman he loves to New York. On their first night in Queens, Marlon and Reina lose each other, thus initiating Marlon's descent into the underbelly of our country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA leader of the gritty-realist movement known as McOndo, Jorge Franco evokes the follies and pains of unrequited love at the same time that he explores deeper inequalities between North and South America. Moving between lower-middle-class Colombia and immigrant New York (specifically, the Jackson Heights neighborhood seen recently in the movie \u003ci\u003eMaria Full of Grace\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eParadise Travel\u003c\/i\u003e is an exciting work from a rising star, celebrated by Gabriel García Márquez as \"one of those to whom I should like to pass the torch\" of Colombian fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eRosario Tijeras\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Latin America's McOndo literary movement drags the butterflies of magical realism into Burger King. With Jorge Franco's narco-saga \u003ci\u003eRosario Tijeras\u003c\/i\u003e, it may have found its first masterpiece.\" —Rachel Aviv, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141709873392,"sku":"9781429935623","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429935623_p0.jpg?v=1763747161","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429935623","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}