{"product_id":"9798217434749","title":"The Bitch","description":"\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A perfect book.” —Kiran Desai, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Unforgettable. . . a powerful, jolting tale about class, motherhood and rage.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\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":"Quintana, Pilar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback B102","offer_id":67851366334676,"sku":"9798217434749","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_21dcaa37-85ba-4247-9dcd-5e01494d5550.jpg?v=1792426415","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9798217434749","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}