{"product_id":"renes-flesh","title":"René's Flesh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA cult classic from pre-embargo Cuba, this dark coming-of-age tale details a young man's unwitting initiation into a cult of flesh, or \u003ci\u003ecarne\u003c\/i\u003e. This is the first unexpurgated English language edition of a novel that combines elements of horror, the picaresque, and philosophy reminscent of Kierkegaard and de Sade. A wild, bloody ride unlike anything you've read before.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pi\u0026amp;ntilde;era makes Stephen King look like Dr. Seuss.”  —Alan Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe celebrated Cuban writer Virgilio Pi\u0026amp;ntilde;era’s greatest novel, \u003ci\u003eRen\u0026amp;eacute;’s Flesh\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1956, opens in an unnamed city in an unspecified time with Ren\u0026amp;eacute;, a gay man just turned twenty, standing in line outside a butcher shop where he has been sent by his father to buy some meat. A hanging side of beef confronts him, and faced with it, Rene recoils. In Spanish, \u003ci\u003ecarne \u003c\/i\u003ecan mean both meat and flesh, and throughout Pi\u0026amp;ntilde;ero's pathbreaking novel of initiation Ren\u0026amp;eacute; is in desperate and unavailing flight from his fleshly existence as he moves thorugh a world full of people who want him and people who want to do him harm. And who, finally, can tell the difference? Certainly not Ren\u0026amp;eacute;.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut of print in for over 25 years, Mark Schafer's masterly English translation has been carefully revised for this reissue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":67661487177955,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9798896231332","price":124.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9405c119632a-9798896231332.jpg?v=1791723259","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/renes-flesh","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}