{"product_id":"9781609454258","title":"Return to the Dark Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003eGritty Central and South American lives from an underground Colombian literary voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSantiago Gamboa is one of Colombia's most exciting young writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolaño, Gamboa infuses his kaleidoscopic, cosmopolitan stories with a dose of inky dark noir that makes his novels intensely readable, his characters unforgettable, and his style influential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eManuela Beltrán, a woman haunted by a troubled childhood she tries to escape through books and poetry; Tertuliano, an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope's son, ready to resort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society; Ferdinand Palacios, a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary past now confronted with his guilt; Rimbaud, the precocious, brilliant poet whose life was incessant exploration; and, Juana and the consul, central characters in Gamboa's \u003ci\u003eNight Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e, who are united in a relationship based equally on hurt and need. These characters animate Gamboa's richly imagined portrait of a hostile, turbulent world where liberation is found in perpetual movement and determined exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Europa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052860752112,"sku":"9781609454258","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609454258_p0.jpg?v=1763838215","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609454258","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}