{"product_id":"9781632061348","title":"The Arid Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescribed as “a literary atomic bomb” (Luisán Gámez), the Mexican literary star Emiliano Monge’s English-language debut is the Latin American incarnation of Cormac McCarthy: an artistically daring, gorgeously wrought and eviscerating novel of biblical violence as told through the story of a man “who, unbeknownst to him, was his century.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is the story of a man who, unbeknownst to him, was his century, and of a place here gathered under a given name, the name Germán Alcántara Carnero. A story of violence both uncontainable and natural, one that demands to be told as a biography but not a linear one, and that should not have begun here.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese lines open \u003ci\u003eThe Arid Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of Germán Alcántara Carnero, of the men and women who lived by his side, and of the plateau where Mexican literary rising star Emiliano Monge distills the essence of a ruthless Latin America. This is an arid land whose only constants are loneliness, violence, loyalty, and the struggle to create an ethical code that will return some small measure of meaning to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarrating the signature moments of Germán’s life—the escape of men to other countries, the interminable war, the disappearance of a young girl, the disenchantment of believers, the confrontation between a father and his son, the birth of a sick child, the loaded chamber of a gun, and murder—\u003ci\u003eThe Arid Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is a journey to the core of humankind and a challenge of the kind only great literature can pose to its readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Whoever nears these pages would do well to follow the advice Dante famously encountered as he passed through the gates of hell: ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here’”—Fernando Castenedo, \u003ci\u003eBabelia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Restless Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056894492912,"sku":"9781632061348","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632061348_p0.jpg?v=1763673448","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632061348","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}