{"product_id":"simone","title":"Simone","description":"Eduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translation of his most celebrated novel, \u003ci\u003eSimone\u003c\/i\u003e-which won the 2013 Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize-will introduce an English-language audience to this extraordinary literary talent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A tale of alienation, love, suspense, imagination, and literature set on the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico, \u003ci\u003eSimone\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a self-educated Chinese immigrant student courting (and stalking) a disillusioned, unnamed writer who is struggling to make a name for himself in a place that is not exactly a hotbed of literary fame. By turns solipsistic and political, romantic and dark, \u003ci\u003eSimone\u003c\/i\u003e begins with the writer's frustrated, satiric observations on his native city and the banal life of the university where he teaches-forces utterly at odds with the sensuality of his writing. But, as mysterious messages and literary clues begin to appear-scrawled on sidewalks and walls, inside volumes set out in bookstores, left on his answering machine and under his windshield wiper-\u003ci\u003eSimone\u003c\/i\u003e progresses into a cat-and-mouse game between the writer and his mystery stalker. When the eponymous Simone's identity is at last revealed, the writer finds in the life of this Chinese immigrant a plight not unlike his own. Traumatized and lonely, the pair moves towards bittersweet collaborations in passion, grief, and art.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48515392667897,"sku":"9780226207483","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/1811\/7625\/files\/imageloader_6bf74271-8454-46ee-bfd0-1a282c5b9da2.jpg?v=1781207689","url":"https:\/\/hookeandplotte.com\/products\/simone","provider":"Hooke and Plotte Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}