{"product_id":"9781931883221","title":"Hi, This Is Conchita: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e Foreign Fiction Prize–winner and \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e “Best Young Spanish- Language Novelist” Santiago Roncagliolo returns with his acclaimed translator Edith Grossman with a raucous phone sex novella and three dark, entrancing stories.\u003cp\u003eTold entirely in dialog, \"Hi, This Is Conchita\" is a virtuosic comic novella about men pushed past their breaking point—and the women who drive them crazy. Peru’s heir to the incisive social literature of Mario Vargas Llosa weaves a complex tale of an office worker hiring a hitman to kill his mistress, a man leaving feverish messages on his beloved’s answering machine, and a phone sex worker whose client is literally crazy about her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three stories that follow reveal Roncagliolo’s masterful range. “Despoiler” is the claustrophobic tale of a Carnival in Barcelona that brings one middle-aged woman face-to-face to her childhood demons. “Butterflies Fastened with Pins” is the perversely comic account of a man whose friends keep killing themselves. And “The Passenger Beside You” is a surreal story narrated by a woman with a gaping bullet wound right through her heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Lines Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052572754160,"sku":"9781931883221","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931883221_p0.jpg?v=1763638510","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931883221","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}