{"product_id":"9781934824207","title":"The Sixty-Five Years of Washington","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"With meticulous prose, rendered by Dolph's translation into propulsive English, Saer's \u003ci\u003eThe Sixty-Five Years of Washington\u003c\/i\u003e captures the wilderness of human experience in all its variety.\"— \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's October 1960, say, or 1961, in a seaside Argentinian city named Santa Fe, and The Mathematician—wealthy, elegant, educated, dressed from head to toe in white—is just back from a grand tour of Europe. He's on his way to drop off a press release about the trip to the papers when he runs into Ángel Leto, a relative newcomer to Santa Fe who does some accounting, but who this morning has decided to wander the town rather than go to work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne day soon, The Mathematician will disappear into exile after his wife's assassination, and Leto will vanish into the guerrilla underground, clutching his suicide pill like a talisman. But for now, they settle into a long conversation about the events of Washington Noriega's sixty-fifth birthday—a party neither of them attended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaer's \u003ci\u003eThe Sixty-Five Years of Washington\u003c\/i\u003e is simultaneously a brilliant comedy about memory, narrative, time, and death and a moving narrative about the lost generations of an Argentina that was perpetually on the verge of collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJuan José Saer\u003c\/b\u003e was the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. The author of numerous novels and short-story collections (including \u003ci\u003eScars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLa Grande\u003c\/i\u003e ), Saer was awarded Spain's prestigious Nadal Prize in 1987 for \u003ci\u003eThe Event.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eSteve Dolph\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder of \u003ci\u003eCalque\u003c\/i\u003e , a journal of literature in translation. His translation of Juan José Saer's \u003ci\u003eScars\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Letter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039587025136,"sku":"9781934824207","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934824207_p0.jpg?v=1763657093","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934824207","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}