{"product_id":"this-country-is-no-longer-yours-hardcover","title":"This Country Is No Longer Yours - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAvik Jain Chatlani\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Avik Jain Chatlani's explosive debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThis Country Is No Longer Yours\u003c\/i\u003e, a chorus of disparate voices comes together to explore how idealists and opportunists betray ordinary people in war-torn Peru.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne of our dead writers liked to say, \u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePeru is a beggar sleeping on a bench made of gold.\" It's a cute phrase, but it's not really true. There's hardly any gold left, and none of us get much sleep.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on real events in 1970s-2000s Peru, \u003ci\u003eThis Country Is No Longer Yours \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of people living through the terrorist campaign of the Maoist Shining Path, while struggling to survive amid economic crisis and state collapse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA student of the revolution's leader is dispatched to Cambodia to learn from the Khmer Rouge, sending him spiralling into a world of unfathomable political violence that both inspires him and will be his undoing. Then, as the terror spreads across Peru, a ruthless security agent of the newly-elected neoconservative government works to squash the growing insurgency now threatening the halls of power, while applying his surveillance training to romantic pursuits--with chilling results. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust when it looks like the Shining Path has been defeated, a nationalist counter-revolution begins brewing in its wake, and a journalist committed to exposing their ambitions is too preoccupied to help a reader desperately pleading for her help outing a sexual predator who is seeking the presidency. And, in the country that remains, two former guerrillas meet again, one now a teacher stuck in the past, the other living on the margins and still fighting for her future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDepicting a place and time ravaged by terror but alive with new ambitions and enduring love, Jain Chatlani explores the intersection of political breakdown and human endurance, as well as the unbearable choices demanded of those living in a society at war with itself. With incisive and haunting prose, combined with deeply personal insight, Jain Chatlani offers a stinging indictment of the ideologies that brutalize the very people they claim to represent, and relays an urgent warning about the dangers of zealotry, political messianism and acts of violence justified in the name of a cause.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAVIK JAIN CHATLANI, the grandson of the first Indian emigrants to Peru, was born in Canada and raised in Chile. He holds degrees in History and Latin American studies from McGill and Boston University, and currently works as a translator and editor with\u003ci\u003e El País\u003c\/i\u003e. He has taught in schools and prisons in Latin America and the United States and currently divides his time between Ottawa and Washington DC. \u003ci\u003eThis Country Is No Longer Yours \u003c\/i\u003eis his debut novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 07, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764052984096,"sku":"9780385688703","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/242332ea8a401c4a96fd5fee8c5e0b7f.webp?v=1780243435","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/this-country-is-no-longer-yours-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}