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In the North, we are fed on a diet of artificial need and all made the same by things we own; the South is the galley slave enabling our greed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOOM Literature","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43866132742207,"sku":"9780312420314","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9456\/6207\/files\/IMG_9109.jpg?v=1789668698"},{"product_id":"the-storyteller-a-novel-cover-may-vary","title":"The Storyteller: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsed fair with no damage on cover. Pages yellowing with age. There is pink highlighting on pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man...that the storyteller is not an Indian at all but an old school friend, Saul Zuratas. As recollections of Zuratas flow through his mind, the writer begins to imagine Zuratas's transformation from a modern to a central member of the unacculturated Machiguenga tribe. Weaving the mysteries of identity, storytelling, and truth, Vargas Llosa has created a spellbinding tale of one man's journey from the modern world to our origins, abandoning one in order to find meaning in both.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOOM Literature","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43924231454783,"sku":"0312420285","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9456\/6207\/files\/IMG_9144.jpg?v=1789972049"},{"product_id":"the-peron-novel","title":"The Peron Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsed good with no physical damage on the cover. No underlining or highlighting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fictional account, using actual names and events, of the 1973 return from exile of Argentina's most enigmatic leader and his struggle to retain control over his party, his nation, and his own life and mind\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOOM Literature","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43926111682623,"sku":"0679722793","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9456\/6207\/files\/IMG_9212.jpg?v=1790019009"},{"product_id":"the-feast-of-the-goat-a-novel","title":"The Feast of the Goat: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsed good with no visible damage. No underlining or highlighting. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A fierce, edgy and enthralling book ... Mr. Vargas Llosa has pushed the boundaries of the traditional historical novel, and in doing so has written a book of harrowing power and lasting resonance.\"--The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOOM Literature","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44040737161279,"sku":"9780312420277","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9456\/6207\/files\/IMG_9374.jpg?v=1790878511"},{"product_id":"one-hundred-years-of-solitude","title":"One Hundred Years of Solitude","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsed good with no damage on the cover. Visible aging. No underling or highlighting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\" One Hundred Years of Solitude\" tells the rich and lusty story of the rise and fall of the Buendia family. Love and death, war and peace, youth and age, the noble and stunningly beautiful story of this family is alive with a truth and understanding that strike the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOOM Literature","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44053611184191,"sku":"9780380452781","price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9456\/6207\/files\/IMG_9465.jpg?v=1791083959"}],"url":"https:\/\/boomliterature.com\/collections\/featured-picks.oembed","provider":"BOOM Literature","version":"1.0","type":"link"}