{"product_id":"the-sixty-five-years-of-washington-juan-jos-saer-9781934824207","title":"The Sixty-Five Years of Washington","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"With meticulous prose, rendered by Dolph's translation into propulsive English, Saer's \u003ci\u003eThe Sixty-Five Years of Washington\u003c\/i\u003e captures the wilderness of human experience in all its variety.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's October 1960, say, or 1961, in a seaside Argentinian city named Santa Fe, and The Mathematician--wealthy, elegant, educated, dressed from head to toe in white--is just back from a grand tour of Europe. He's on his way to drop off a press release about the trip to the papers when he runs into Ángel Leto, a relative newcomer to Santa Fe who does some accounting, but who this morning has decided to wander the town rather than go to work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne day soon, The Mathematician will disappear into exile after his wife's assassination, and Leto will vanish into the guerrilla underground, clutching his suicide pill like a talisman. But for now, they settle into a long conversation about the events of Washington Noriega's sixty-fifth birthday--a party neither of them attended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaer's \u003ci\u003eThe Sixty-Five Years of Washington\u003c\/i\u003e is simultaneously a brilliant comedy about memory, narrative, time, and death and a moving narrative about the lost generations of an Argentina that was perpetually on the verge of collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuan José Saer\u003c\/b\u003e was the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. The author of numerous novels and short-story collections (including \u003ci\u003eScars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLa Grande\u003c\/i\u003e), Saer was awarded Spain's prestigious Nadal Prize in 1987 for \u003ci\u003eThe Event.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Dolph\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder of \u003ci\u003eCalque\u003c\/i\u003e, a journal of literature in translation. His translation of Juan José Saer's \u003ci\u003eScars\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Juan José Saer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1934824208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934824207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.58w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/27\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2010 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2010 pg. 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/19\/2010 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/26\/2010 pg. 22","brand":"Juan José Saer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937561608447,"sku":"9781934824207","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_2223cffe-cc8b-4e0a-97c7-486141bccee6.jpg?v=1681430790","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sixty-five-years-of-washington-juan-jos-saer-9781934824207","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}