{"product_id":"9781945492068","title":"The Right Intention","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Andrés Barba needs no advice. He has already created a world that is perfectly realized and has a craft that is inappropriate for a writer of his age.\" —Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a single, destructive obsession. A runner puts his marriage at risk while training for a marathon; a teenager can no longer stand the sight of meat following her parents' divorce; a man suddenly fixates on the age difference between him and his younger male lover. In four tightly wound novellas, Andrés Barba establishes himself as a master of the form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAndrés Barba\u003c\/b\u003e is the one the most lauded contemporary Spanish writers. He is the author of twelve books, including \u003ci\u003eAugust, October\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRain Over Madrid\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to literary fiction, he has written essays, poems, books of photography, and translations of Thomas De Quincey and Herman Melville. His books have been translated into ten languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eLisa Dillman\u003c\/b\u003e won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award for her translation of Yuri Herrera's \u003ci\u003eSigns Preceding the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e. She translates from Spanish and Catalan and teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050824679664,"sku":"9781945492068","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781945492068_p0.jpg?v=1763793114","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781945492068","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}