{"product_id":"9781555979522","title":"Cabo de Gata: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA witty, philosophical novel by the author of the internationally bestselling \u003ci\u003eIn Times of Fading Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes a cat comes into your life when you least expect it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn  unnamed writer finds himself in Cabo de Gata, a sleepy, worn-down  Andalusian fishing village. He's left behind his life in Berlin, which  it turns out wasn't much--an ex-girlfriend, a neighborhood that had  become too trendy for his taste. Surrounded by a desolate landscape that  is scoured by surprisingly cold winds (not at all what he expected of  southern Spain), he faces his daily failures: to connect with the  innkeeper or any of the townsfolk, who all seem to be hiding  something; to learn Spanish; to keep warm; to write. At last he succeeds  in making an unlikely connection with one of the village's many feral  cats. Does the cat have a message for him? And will their tenuous  relationship be enough to turn his life around?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith sharp intelligence and wry humor, Eugen Ruge's \u003ci\u003eCabo de Gata\u003c\/i\u003e  proposes the biggest questions and illustrates how achieving happiness  sometimes means giving oneself up to the foreign and the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128611324144,"sku":"9781555979522","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555979522_p0.jpg?v=1763754874","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555979522","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}