{"product_id":"a-week-in-october-isbn-9781590512883","title":"A Week in October","description":"A mystery novel where the heart is the culprit and the reader is the detective sleuthing for two truths‚Äîthe story‚Äôs and their own\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Week in October is a thriller for those of us who usually prefer a good love story that you just can‚Äôt put down. In other words it is a thriller-of-the-heart, where the spirit of \"dangerous liaisons\" is set against the all too familiar and difficult background of breast cancer. The beautiful wife of a successful Chilean architect courageously confronts her illness, mastectomy, and treatment while recording her thoughts and experiences in her journal. What develops is a thinly veiled version of her own life, her disappoint with their cold marriage, her reminiscences of childhood, and the death that seems to surround her. Her husband discovers the notebook and is stunned: How does she know that he had a mistress all these years? Is he really such a fatuous bore? Could it be true that his sick wife had a passionate love affair with one of his colleagues, right under his nose? Is this just a fictional story‚Äîhe asks himself, turning the pages‚Äîor his wife‚Äôs very personal diary as she awaits death?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bestselling Latin American author, A Week in October is Elizabeth Subercaseaux‚Äôs first novel to be translated into English. This extraordinary tale about erotic tension, deception, resilience, and death keeps us in suspense, between laughter and tears, until the unexpected, haunting ending that ponders the mysteries of a woman's heart, where truth is a lie and a lie is truth.“Filled with delicious ironies and feminist wit.”\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003e Magill Book Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An intelligent novel of great suspense in which love, death, fiction, and reality all intersect in the telling of its story.” \u003ci\u003e–Isabel Allende \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Subercaseaux\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eElizabeth Subercaseaux was born in Chile, the great-great-granddaughter of the German composer Robert Schumann. She is the best-selling author of ten books. Her nonfiction includes \u003ci\u003eMichelle\u003c\/i\u003e, a biography of the first woman to be elected president in Chile, and the amusing feminist manifesto, \u003ci\u003eThe Ten Things a Chilean Woman Should Never Do\u003c\/i\u003e. Subercaseaux lives in Pennsylvania. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarina Harss\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eMarina Harss translations include \u003ci\u003eFor Solo Violin (Per Vionlino Solo)\u003c\/i\u003e, a war memoir by Aldo Zargani, and stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda\u003c\/i\u003e, by Sonia Rivera-Vald. Her translations have also appeared in \u003ci\u003eBomb, Brooklyn Rail,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAutadafe\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a researcher at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and lives in New York City. \u003cbr\u003eAlso by this author: \u003cu\u003eConjugal Love\u003c\/u\u003e, \u003cu\u003eStories from the City of God\u003c\/u\u003e","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304267763941,"sku":"NP9781590512883","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590512883.jpg?v=1767720911","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-week-in-october-isbn-9781590512883","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}