{"product_id":"season-of-ash-paperback","title":"Season of Ash - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJorge Volpi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlfred MacAdam\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJorge Volpi will be one of the stars of Spanish literature of this century.--Carlos Fuentes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Soviet biologist Irina Granina has experienced the worst of Communism, struggling to free her husband from the gulag for years. Following the rise of Gorbachev, her husband finally emerges a changed man, but then Irina is forced to witness the worst of capitalism, as her daughter Oksana disappears into the newly rapacious consumer society and she loses her husband again, this time to greed and a lust for power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the West, Jennifer Moore, the scion of blue-blooded American wealth, takes a high-ranking job at the International Monetary Fund, where she hopes to bring the tough love of the free market economy to the unenlightened masses the world over. But she also has to deal with a philandering husband, Jack Wells, whose pharmaceutical company is a market wonder built on a house of cards, and her sister Allison, a free-spirited anti-globalization activist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJorge Volpi's \u003ci\u003eSeason of Ash\u003c\/i\u003e puts a human face on earth-shaking events of the late twentieth century: the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Soviet communism and the rise of the Russian oligarchs, the cascading collapsing of developing economies, and the near-miraculous scientific advances of the Human Genome Project. A scientific investigation, a journalistic expos , a detective novel, and a dark love story, Season of Ash is a thrilling exploration of greed and disillusionment, and a clear-eyed examination of the passions that rule our lives and make history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJorge Volpi\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nine novels, including \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Klingsor\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won the Spanish Premio Biblioteca Breve prize and the French Deux-Oc ans-Grizane-Cavour Prize. Volpi is one of the founders of the Crack group--a prestigious Mexican literary movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlfred MacAdam\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Latin American literature at Barnard College and the translator of novels by Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jos  Donoso, Juan Carlos Onetii, and Julio Cort zar, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJorge Volpi\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nine novels, including \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Klingsor\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he won the Spanish Premio Biblioteca Breve prize and the French Deux-Océans-Grizane-Cavour Prize. Volpi is one of the founders of the Crack group--a prestigious Mexican literary movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlfred MacAdam\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Latin American literature at Barnard College and the translator of novels by Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Donoso, Juan Carlos Onetii, and Julio Cortázar, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 413\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769940377888,"sku":"9781934824108","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1e726a4d1d197fff381faa19d71d8950.webp?v=1780360370","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/season-of-ash-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}