{"product_id":"the-jewish-son-paperback-1","title":"The Jewish Son - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Guebel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJessica Sequeira\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA breathtaking short novel about the complicated feelings of hate and pity in familial love by an acknowledged Latin American master.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA brilliant and dark tour de force, \u003ci\u003eJewish Son \u003c\/i\u003epresents the delicate archeology of the stubbornness of a boy who demands his parents' attention. It is a brutal confession of the lies necessary to win a space of approval in a troubled family, a treatise on the excesses of love and the paradoxical lack of affection that is never enough, an accomplished narration of childhood from the point of view of the adult gaze, and a rewriting of Kafka's \u003ci\u003eLetter to His Father\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs his father's imminent death becomes an ever more concrete reality with surgeries, caregivers, sedatives and his mother grows obsessed with visits to the rabbi and amasses saint cards and Buddhist prayers, the narrator evokes the remnants of the rejection that pervaded his childhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithout yielding to the idealization of youth or to the delight in pain before physical decay and death, Guebel dissects, beautifully although with discomfort, his very early conversion to the dream of literature as an act of reparation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of Argentina's and Latin America's finest writers, \u003cb\u003eDANIEL GUEBEL\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of some 17 prior novels, four collections of short stories, and four plays. His novel \u003ci\u003eThe Absolute \u003c\/i\u003e(Seven Stories, 2022) was named the best work of fiction of 2016 by \u003ci\u003eLa Nación\u003c\/i\u003e and received the 2017 Literary Prize from the Argentine Academy of Literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJESSICA SEQUERIA \u003c\/b\u003ehas translated works by Adolfo Couve, Teresa Wilms Montt, Sara Gallardo, Liliana Colanzi, Hilda Mundy, Jean de la Hire, and Maurice Level, among many others.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47243489706233,"sku":"9781644212899","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/OFZ4V1lkd1JKdkM1Ny9tZ3U0cTVBQT09_fe0d6dec-d24b-45b4-a9d6-2ec6eafe7387.webp?v=1768587096","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-jewish-son-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}