{"product_id":"9780593472088","title":"Thirst","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, and a vampire must escape. She arrives to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city. She adapts, intermingles with humans, and attempts to be discreet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship to motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites inside the two women—and they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With echoes of Mary Shelley’s \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThirst \u003c\/i\u003eplays with the boundaries of the Gothic genre while exploring the limits of female agency, all-consuming desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Channeling Carmen Maria Machado and Anne Rice, Yuszczuk reimagines the vampire novel, with a distinctly Latin American feminist Gothic twist.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Marina Yuszczuk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46116828152020,"sku":"9780593472088","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_adb7380a-05dd-4dc7-9eef-ba7bfb8537cc.jpg?v=1741019159","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780593472088","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}