{"product_id":"the-silentiary-9781681375625","title":"The Silentiary","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn post-WWII South America, a struggling writer embarks on a murderous thought experiment to help kickstart his career in this next tale of longing from the author of \u003ci\u003eZama. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silentiary\u003c\/i\u003e takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man employed in mid-level management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary precondition, which the crowded and noisily industrialized city always denies him, however often he and his mother and wife move in search of it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe thinks of embarking on his writing career with something simple, a detective novel, and ponders the possibility of choosing a victim among the people he knows and planning a crime as if he himself were the killer. That way, he hopes, his book might finally begin to take shape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the second of the three novels by Antonio Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation, after the dedication \"To the victims of expectation\" in the first volume, \u003ci\u003eZama\u003c\/i\u003e. Together these three works constitute, in Juan José Saer's words, \"one of the culminating moments of twentieth-century narrative fiction in Spanish.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681375625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Antonio Di Benedetto","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41500377710773,"sku":"9781681375625","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a037a3ac-739f-4894-86b6-4b05895df12b.jpg?v=1641276200","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-silentiary-9781681375625","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}