{"product_id":"napalm-in-the-heart-paperback","title":"Napalm in the Heart - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePol Guasch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMara Faye Lethem\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Pol Guasch must be one of the best young writers working today. This novel is entirely resolute and clear-hearted.\" --Catherine Lacey, author of \u003ci\u003eBiography of X\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Profoundly strange and beautiful, formally bold and lyrically elevated.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSurvival is a moral quandary in this jagged, otherworldly debut charting forbidden love during an apocalypse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a near future devastated by war and unspecified natural disaster, a young man and his mother cling to survival at the edge of a forest. The young man spends his days taking care of the home and exchanging letters with his lover, Boris, who lives in a city on the other side of the woods. It's barely a life, but it's a life nonetheless, despite the menacing soldiers patrolling the land. But after the young man commits a brutal act of desperate violence to protect his mother, he leaves home to find the mercurial Boris, who travels with him on a search for safety. When the journey's demands threaten his precarious relationship with Boris as well as his own moral compass, the young man is forced to confront whether, in his effort to stay alive, he has become the very danger he fought to escape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn award-winning novel from a blazingly original Catalonian writer, Pol Guasch's \u003ci\u003eNapalm in the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is breathtaking in its intimacy, poetry, and devastation. Spare and quick, Guasch's debut is an artful, affecting story of star-crossed love under siege and the moral murkiness of survival.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePol Guasch \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of two collections of poetry and two novels. The holder of a Master's Degree in Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory from King's College London, he is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Barcelona. He has also been a writer-in-residence at the Santa Maddalena Foundation in Florence, Italy and Art Omi in New York. His debut novel \u003ci\u003eNapalm al cor, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich has been translated into six languages, won the 2021 Anagrama Novel Prize, making Guasch the youngest winner in the prize's history. He lives in Barcelona. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMara Faye Lethem\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and literary translator from the Catalan and the Spanish who lives in Barcelona. She has translated into English novels by David Trueba, Albert Sánchez Piñol, Javier Calvo, and Patricio Pron, among others, and her translations have appeared in publications such as \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751722254624,"sku":"9780374612955","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4ee240620c3e3978471b50ebf17a6667.webp?v=1779978664","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/napalm-in-the-heart-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}