{"product_id":"the-secret-gardens-of-mogador-alberto-ruy-s-nchez-9781893996991","title":"The Secret Gardens of Mogador: Voices of the Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Ruy-S nchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry, and intelligence in a new geometry of words. . . . His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.\"--Octavio Paz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In the books by Ruy-S nchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives, is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay they are made of. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breathes through the erotic.\"--Alberto Manguel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Mogador--the city of desire--a woman, tired of her lover's insensitivity, decides to pose a challenge to him: She will make love with him only when he tells her about a new garden in the city. The problem is that he must search for gardens where one least expects to find them, and he may not invent them. To discover hidden gardens, he will have to tune his most powerful impulses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlberto Ruy-S nchez examines the complex nature of enduring intimacy and the daily challenge of addressing the ever-changing desires of the other. He considers the perpetual quest to re-create the magical moment when paradise was first discovered in the body of the beloved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlberto Ruy-S nchez\u003c\/b\u003e is a Mexican writer and author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, many of which have been translated, including his novel Mogador, published by City Lights Publishers in 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRhonda Dahl Buchanan\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Spanish and the director of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. Her books of translation include \u003ci\u003eThe Entre R os Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e by Perla Suez and \u003ci\u003eQuick Fix: Sudden Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e by Ana Mar a Shua.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alberto Ruy-S疣chez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1893996999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781893996991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e White Pine Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.06h x 5.14w x 0.53d","brand":"Alberto Ruy-S疣chez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939092005119,"sku":"9781893996991","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1a42d865-266c-4467-a47d-1fa6eaeddeec.jpg?v=1681439449","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-secret-gardens-of-mogador-alberto-ruy-s-nchez-9781893996991","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}