{"product_id":"lady-matadors-hotel-cristina-garcia-9781439181751","title":"Lady Matador's Hotel","description":"\u003cb\u003eNational Book Award finalist Cristina Garc僘 delivers a powerful and gorgeous novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe lives of six men and women converge over the course of one week. There is a Japanese-Mexican-American matadora in town for a bull-fighting competition; an ex-guerrilla now working as a waitress in the hotel coffee shop; a Korean manufacturer with an underage mistress ensconced in the honeymoon suite; an international adoption lawyer of German descent; a colonel who committed atrocities during his country's long civil war; and a Cuban poet who has come with his American wife to adopt a local infant. With each day, their lives become further entangled, resulting in the unexpected--the clash of histories and the pull of revenge and desire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCristina Garc僘's magnificent orchestration of politics, the intimacies of daily life, and the frailty of human nature unfolds in a moving, ambitious, often comic, and unforgettable tale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cristina Garcia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439181756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439181751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.50d","brand":"Cristina Garcia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991996858623,"sku":"9781439181751","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35745944-bf19-4f6b-b463-18e39bc19dd5.jpg?v=1683313446","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lady-matadors-hotel-cristina-garcia-9781439181751","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}