{"product_id":"queen-cocaine-nuria-amat-9780872864351","title":"Queen Cocaine","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing the footsteps of a writer persecuted because of his ideas and tortured by his own frustrations, a young Catalan woman embarks on an adventure in the jungles of Colombia where her familiar world shatters and from which nothing emerges unharmed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfronted by solitude in a region where it rains incessantly, she discovers, first in her lover, then in the people around her, the alarming signs of a devastating war. In a narrative that swings between intimacy and horror, she bears witness to a hell in which she abandons everything except the language she has had to reinvent, as her only refuge, to speak about the thousand new faces death has shown her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" . . . the Barcelona-based Catalan author brings an alien sensibility and lush, invented language to \u003cem\u003eQueen Cocaine\u003c\/em\u003e, set in Colombia's war-ravaged countryside. . . . Amat's book is a paranoid fever dream of a peasant novel--heir to those of Rulfo and Fanon, but also Lispector--filtered through the gaze of her doomed outsider.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Amat deftly conjures the funereal landscape of Colombia's Pacific coast--an indifferent sea; intemperate rains; a jungle carpeted with snakes and punctuated by swamps . . . a traumatic forced evacuation of the village near the end adds gravitas to the book, which is an acute, grimly poetic account of a South American heart of darkness.\"--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A happy combination of intelligence and critical insight.\"--Juan Goytisolo, \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn all, a revelatory tale that reads like the testimony of a shell-shocked survivor.\"--\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[An] apocalyptic novel by Spanish writer Amat . . . A brilliant portrayal of the horrors of drug cultivation; recommended for all general collections, especially where there is an interest in Latin American culture.\"--\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNuria Amat\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Barcelona, where she now lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nuria Amat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0872864359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872864351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.96h x 5.26w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2004 pg. 1151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/14\/2005 pg. 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2005 pg. 1140\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2005 pg. 74","brand":"Nuria Amat","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45896495104255,"sku":"9780872864351","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6d0f66b4-bb89-4ab9-a581-17e345dd755a.jpg?v=1721371555","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queen-cocaine-nuria-amat-9780872864351","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}