{"product_id":"the-storm-isbn-9781939810021","title":"The Storm","description":"\u003cb\u003eA riveting family drama set on the lush and dangerous Colombian coast.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy one of Colombia's most acclaimed contemporary novelists, \u003ci\u003eThe Storm \u003c\/i\u003eis an atmospheric, gripping portrait of the tensions that devastate one family. Twins Mario and Jose do not know how to cope with the hatred they feel for their father, an arrogant man whose pride seems to taint everything he touches. Over the course of a fateful fishing trip straight into the heart of a storm, father and sons are confronted with the unspoken secrets and resentments that are destroying them.\"There is humor in the frequent revelation of self-delusions. There is also suspense as the storm—more interpersonal than weather-related—builds and breaks. Fabulist elements, lyrical prose, and a chorus of narrative voices give this slim novel depth and breadth.\" \u003cb\u003e— \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Self-delusion, hallucinations, anger, volatility chafe against the soothing waters and the stars above, and González, one of South America’s most acclaimed and pitch-perfect novelists, plunges you into the brutality of man and nature alike.\" \u003cb\u003e– Kerri Arsenault, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Andrea Rosenberg’s translation, the author’s stylistic traits—short and pointed phrases, poetic descriptions and poetic monologues—shine and linger in the reader’s ear...\u003ci\u003eThe Storm\u003c\/i\u003e arrives as a welcome addition to the international recognition of one Colombia’s most prolific and poetic writers.\" \u003cb\u003e– Nicolás Llano, \u003ci\u003eAsymptote Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A complex psychological portrait of a family on the verge of self-made disaster.\"\u003cb\u003e --Hank Stephenson, bookseller, Flyleaf Books, in \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eIn the Beginning was the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e (Pushkin Press, 2014):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \"Gonzalez poetically and comically captures the inevitable destruction of those who live in a world of fantasy and hubris, depicting beauty and despair by turns.\" -- \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \u003ci\u003eIn the Beginning Was the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e [is] a book that simultaneously works as a political parable, a novel, and a mournful confessional... written in a fashion meant to hold up his own grief and disorientation as its own strange flower, an emotional germination meant both to stand on its own and be inseparable from all that surrounds it, an individual \"you,\" straining to emerge from a ceaseless body of discovery, loss, memory, and their insatiable repetition.\" -- \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   • \"The lyrical, haunting story has the feel of a fable--a young man and his beautiful wife abandon their hectic, intellectual, night-clubbing life in the city to buy a farm on an undeveloped stretch of coast--while the spare, disquieting prose suggests the start of an art-house horror film.\" - Daniel Levine, \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003eTomás  González was born in 1950 in Medellín, Colombia. He studied Philosophy  before becoming a barman in a Bogotá nightclub, whose owner published  his first novel in 1983. González has lived in Miami and New York, where  he wrote much of his work while making a living as a translator. After  twenty years in the US, he returned to Colombia, where he now lives. His  books have been translated into six languages, and his previous novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Archipelago with translator Andrea Rosenberg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrea Rosenberg is a translator from the Spanish and Portuguese and an editor of the \u003ci\u003eBuenos Aires Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Among her recent and forthcoming full-length translations are Inês Pedrosa's \u003ci\u003eIn Your Hands\u003c\/i\u003e, Aura Xilonen's \u003ci\u003eThe Gringo Champion\u003c\/i\u003e, Juan Gómez Bárcena's \u003ci\u003eThe Sky over Lima\u003c\/i\u003e, and David Jiménez's \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Monsoon\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Archipelago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304678052069,"sku":"NP9781939810021","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781939810021.jpg?v=1767741669","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-storm-isbn-9781939810021","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}