{"product_id":"the-tour-guide-harrison-rose-tate-9798998773730","title":"The Tour Guide: Based on a True Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tour Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a quietly powerful literary novel rooted in truth, based on a true story of survival, silence, and succession in postcolonial Peru.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story of deception, reckoning, death, reunion, and the unbearable weight of what a single life can contain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA child is born in secret, his presence unacknowledged, his origin obscured by silence. Those with power conceal what they do not want to answer for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose without it learn to speak without words. Yet, from the convent corridors of Yungay to the highest hacienda on the hill, decisions are made without them. A girl is hidden. A baby disappears. No one signs a ledger. No one asks the right questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the real-life devastation of the 1970 Ancash earthquake and avalanche, the novel follows Santiago, a Peruvian orphan raised in a shadow of secrets he doesn't know he carries, as he searches for meaning, belonging, and the thread of identity across continents and decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat unfolds is a different kind of inheritance. A path that leads to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. The tour guide recounts his tale not as memory, but as something more ominous. It has waited. It is coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once intimate and sweeping, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tour Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a literary work of emotional archaeology. This incredible journey was casually shared with the author in a quiet café, entrusted across time and memory, and shaped into a work meant to endure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A complex and appealingly lucid account of one man's deeply troubled past.\" - \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harrison Rose Tate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798998773730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.45d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001","brand":"Harrison Rose Tate","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852622278911,"sku":"9798998773730","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tour-guide-harrison-rose-tate-9798998773730","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}