{"product_id":"ordesa-9780593084052","title":"Ordesa","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A meditation on yearning, solitude, and self; a soul storm, a mirage of phantom figures . . . a book of deep reckoning.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe #1 international bestselling phenomenon--a profound and riveting story of love, loss, and memory.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A man at a crossroads in the middle of his life considers the place where he's from, and where his parents have recently died. In the face of enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write. What follows is an audacious chronicle of his childhood and an unsparing account of his life's trials, failures, and triumphs that becomes a moving look at what family gives and takes away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the intimacy of a diarist, he reckons with the ghosts of his parents and the current specters of his divorce, his children, his career, and his addictions. In unswervingly honest prose, Vilas explores his identity after great loss--what is a person without a marriage or without parents? What is a person when faced with memories alone? Already an acclaimed poet and novelist in Spain, Vilas takes his work to a whole new level with this autobiographical novel; critics have called it \"a work of art able to cauterize pain.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elegiac and searching, \u003ci\u003eOrdesa\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on loss and a powerful exploration of a person who is both extraordinary and utterly ordinary--at once singular and representing us all--who transforms a time of crisis into something beautiful and redemptive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593084052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304","brand":"Manuel Vilas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41309757538485,"sku":"9780593084052","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f64ade77-2f74-462e-a0ba-3426db4cdfad.jpg?v=1635831686","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ordesa-9780593084052","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}