{"product_id":"city-of-palaces-hardcover","title":"City of Palaces - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Nava\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the years before the Mexican Revolution, Mexico is ruled by a tiny elite that apes European culture, grows rich from foreign investment, and prizes racial purity. The vast majority of Mexicans, who are native or of mixed native and Spanish blood, are politically powerless and slowly starving to death. Presiding over this corrupt system is Don Porfirio Díaz, the ruthless and inscrutable president of the Republic. \u003cbr\u003e Against this backdrop, \u003ci\u003eThe City of Palaces \u003c\/i\u003eopens in a Mexico City jail with the meeting of Miguel Sarmiento and Alicia Gavilán. Miguel is a principled young doctor, only recently returned from Europe but wracked by guilt for a crime he committed as a medical student ten years earlier. Alicia is the spinster daughter of an aristocratic family. Disfigured by smallpox, she has devoted herself to working with the city's destitute. This unlikely pair--he a scientist and atheist and she a committed Christian--will marry. Through their eyes and the eyes of their young son, José, readers follow the collapse of the old order and its bloody aftermath. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe City of Palaces \u003c\/i\u003eis a sweeping novel of interwoven lives: Miguel and Alicia; José, a boy as beautiful and lonely as a child in a fairy tale; the idealistic Francisco Madero, who overthrows Díaz but is nevertheless destroyed by the tyrant's political system; and Miguel's cousin Luis, shunned as a \"sodomite.\" A glittering mosaic of the colonial past and the wealth of the modern age, \u003ci\u003eThe City of Palaces \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of faith and reason, cathedrals and hovels, barefoot street vendors and frock-coated businessmen, grand opera and silent film, presidents and peasants, the living and the dead. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Winner, International Latino Book Award for Latino Fiction, Latino Literacy Now \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Second place, International Latino Book Award for Historical Fiction, Latino Literacy Now \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Finalist, Gay Fiction, Lambda Literary Awards \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Honorable Mention in Drama, Latino Books into Movies Award, International Latino Book Awards \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Reviewers\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Nava is the author of an acclaimed series of seven crime novels featuring Henry Rios, a gay Latino criminal defense lawyer. The series has won six Lambda Literary Awards. In 2001 he received the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in LGBT literature. A native Californian and the grandson of Mexican immigrants, Nava lives near San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 10, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lambda Literary Awards (2015)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751716454688,"sku":"9780299299101","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/50b29945f264debaad1d0aa03f51f8e8.webp?v=1779978489","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/city-of-palaces-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}