{"product_id":"la-realidad-isbn-9781644216170","title":"La Realidad","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new book by the author of the award-winning bestseller \u003ci\u003eSad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e is a combination semiautobiographical travelogue and intellectual journey that reconfirms Sinno‘s immense talent as a writer.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Completely changes all the rules of writing.\" —Rachel Cusk, on \u003ci\u003eSad Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You don’t understand anything,” the narrator is told at the beginning of Neige Sinno’s \u003ci\u003eLa Realidad. \u003c\/i\u003eThe narrator, Netcha, and her friend, Magda, try to reach La Realidad, the village in Chiapas, Mexico, where they hope to join an “encuentro,” one of the legendary meetings often involving hundreds or thousands of people involved in the Zapatista movement, and perhaps even to meet the Zapatista leader, Subcomandante Marcos. On a later trip to Mexico, the two friends set up tables in each village square to collect the locals’ stories of their dead and of their dreams, offering their homemade lentils in exchange.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNetcha returns to Chiapas again to attend a Zapatista Escualita, or little school. In search of la realidad, Netcha instead finds ghosts. “I hear the whispers of ghosts wandering like sleepwalkers through my head,” she says, among them Antonin Artaud, who in 1936 made an enigmatic journey to Mexico, and a character in J. M. G. Le Clézio’s \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Flights\u003c\/i\u003e who wanted “to be a traveler without being an oppressor.” Ultimately\u003ci\u003e La Realidad\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about desire, both intimate and collective, for another possible world.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158822318309,"sku":"NP9781644216170","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/la-realidad-isbn-9781644216170","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}