{"product_id":"the-son-of-black-thursday-hardcover","title":"The Son of Black Thursday - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlejandro Jodorowsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMegan McDowell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Alejandro Jodorowsky--the legendary director of \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, spiritual guru behind \u003ci\u003ePsychomagic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Bird Sings Best\u003c\/i\u003e--comes another autobiographical tour-de-force: a mythopoetic portrait of the artist as a young man in Chile in the tumultuous 1930s.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhere the Bird Sings Best\u003c\/i\u003e, Alejandro Jodorowsky's visionary autobiographical novel that NPR compared to \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e and called \"a genius's surreal vision brought to life,\" we followed Jodorowsky's predecessors as they fled to Chile amid a fantastical array of circuses, Tarot, Catholic and Jewish mysticism, sexual extravagance, political violence, and the ghost of a wise rabbi serving as advisor. Now, in \u003ci\u003eThe Son of Black Thursday\u003c\/i\u003e, Jodorowsky himself takes the stage as we're introduced to the unforgettable cast of his early years in Chile in the 1930s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We follow his father, Jaime, who's obsessed with assassinating the dictator he ends up serving; his mother, Sarah, a giantess who never speaks but communicates through operatic singing; his grandparents, Ukrainian Jewish exiles fleeing persecution in the Ukraine; his twin sister, who is made to suckle a mannequin until she is ten in order to silence her delirious speeches; among other creatures of every description as they struggle against the misery and oppression of the copper mines of the Chilean desert. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As he's done across media from film to comics to mystic philosophy to fiction, Jodorowsky once again demonstrates his boundless capacity for creating a universe of wonder, horror, humor, magic, and cosmic truth beyond our wildest imaginings. \u003ci\u003eThe Son of Black Thursday\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping novel from one of our most treasured masters.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlejandro Jodorowsky\u003c\/b\u003e was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Tocopilla, Chile. From an early age, he became interested in mime and theater; at the age of 23, he left for Paris to pursue the arts, and has lived there ever since. A friend and companion of Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor, he founded the Panic movement and has directed several classic films of this style, including \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEl Topo\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSanta Sangre\u003c\/i\u003e. A mime artist, specialist in the art of tarot, and prolific author, he has written novels, poetry, short stories, essays, and over thirty successful comic books, working with such highly regarded comic book artists as Moebius and Bess. Restless Books has published three of Jodorowsky's best-known books for the first time in English: \u003ci\u003eWhere the Bird Sings Best, The Son of Black Thursday, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlbina and the Dog-Men\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan McDowell\u003c\/b\u003e is a Spanish-language literary translator from Kentucky. Her work includes books by Alejandro Zambra, Samanta Schweblin, Lina Meruane, Mariana Enríquez, Álvaro Bisama, Arturo Fontaine, and Juan Emar. Her translations have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, Words Without Borders, \u003ci\u003eMandorla\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Her translation of Zambra's novel \u003ci\u003eWays of Going Home \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2013 PEN Award for Writing in Translation. She lives in Santiago, Chile.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770464829728,"sku":"9781632060532","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6fc1a9e0f241e5c1bab779c9da0546a6.webp?v=1780372277","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-son-of-black-thursday-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}