{"product_id":"sacrifices-stories-9781644211748","title":"Sacrifices: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eThese revelatory short stories tread the line between surrealism and realism with strange, appealing characters who take on a sacrifice in spite of themselves.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA followup to his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Night\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Rive Gauche à Paris Prize for foreign books in 2016), this collection of short stories by Venezuelan literary star Rodrigo Blanco Calderón features a taxidermist painter, a blind man lost in Mexico City, a female motorcyclist who rides naked through the night, a foreigner who learns a language making confessions in Paris churches, and a dying pilot who finds peace in a reading of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImpeccable and masterful in his storytelling, Blanco Calderón constructs a nocturnal cast of characters who become the victims and executioners of a sacrifice in the midst of a floundering Venezuela, others with the threat of terrorism in France, or in a Mexico symbolizing the first shots of the revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seven Stories Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644211748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Rodrigo Blanco Calder\u0026#243;n","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42334450024629,"sku":"9781644211748","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_55899be4-a9b2-493f-a86c-b4a6eed37d2c.jpg?v=1660627494","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sacrifices-stories-9781644211748","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}