{"product_id":"9781590177358","title":"Zama","description":"An NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e First published in 1956, \u003ci\u003eZama \u003c\/i\u003eis now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, \u003ci\u003eZama\u003c\/i\u003e takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes  the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed  servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the  capital of remote Paraguay. There, eaten up by pride, lust, petty  grudges, and paranoid fantasies, he does as little as he possibly can  while plotting his eventual transfer to Buenos Aires, where everything  about his hopeless existence will, he is confident, be miraculously  transformed and made good. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Don Diego’s slow, nightmarish  slide into the abyss is not just a tale of one man’s perdition but an  exploration of existential, and very American, loneliness. \u003ci\u003eZama\u003c\/i\u003e,  with its stark dreamlike prose and spare imagery, is at once dense and  unforeseen, terse and fateful, marked throughout by a haunting movement  between sentences, paragraphs, and sections, so that every word seems to  emerge from an ocean of things left unsaid. The philosophical depths of  this great book spring directly from its dazzling prose.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157780447472,"sku":"9781590177358","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177358_p0.jpg?v=1763805914","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177358","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}