{"product_id":"damnificados-9781629631172","title":"Damnificados","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2016 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, Fiction\u003cbr\u003e2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, Multicultural Fiction\u003cbr\u003e2017 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold, Multicultural Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominee: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2017 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award, Debut Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUses magical realism, revolutionary politics, and romantic adventure to bring to life a colorful community of squatters in an imaginary Latin American city\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDamnificados\u003c\/i\u003e is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, the Tower of David. In this fictional version, 600 \"damnificados\"--vagabonds and misfits--take over an abandoned urban tower and set up a community complete with schools, stores, beauty salons, bakeries, and a rag-tag defensive militia. Their always heroic (and often hilarious) struggle for survival and dignity pits them against corrupt police, the brutal military, and the tyrannical \"owners.\" Taking place in an unnamed country at an unspecified time, the novel has elements of magical realism: avenging wolves, biblical floods, massacres involving multilingual ghosts, arrow showers falling to the tune of Beethoven's Ninth, and a trash truck acting as a Trojan horse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PM Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781629631172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2016 pg. 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/29\/2016\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jj Amaworo Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36663156474012,"sku":"9781629631172","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_eefcf9b5-7f20-4e7e-9175-5786ad6d0092.jpg?v=1603903661","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/damnificados-9781629631172","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}