{"product_id":"9798217434749","title":"The Bitch","description":"By: Pilar Quintana     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Quintana works wonders with her disillusioned, no-nonsense, powerful prose.”— Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Things Falling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this intense, spare, brilliantly observed novel, a woman’s dangerously primal feelings are awakened when she adopts an orphaned puppy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a bluff overlooking Colombia’s rough Pacific coast, at the edge of the jungle—a world where nothing is taken for granted –Damaris lives in a shack with her fisherman husband. Her dream of a child unfulfilled and the warmth of her marriage cooled, she has reached the age “when women dry up,” as her uncle puts it. When the opportunity arises, she takes in a motherless puppy with eagerness and immediate affection. She does not yet know the risk she is taking in forging a bond that touches her most painful losses and her tenderest yearnings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn prose as terse as the villagers Damaris lives among, \u003ci\u003eThe Bitch\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the double-edged force of the instinct to nurture and the desperate desire to be nurtured in turn.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":48526369587427,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9798217434749","price":85.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9798217434749.jpg?v=1781381692","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/9798217434749","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}