{"product_id":"mangy-parrot-uk","title":"Mangy Parrot (UK)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMangy Parrot (UK)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJose Joaquin Fernandez De Lizardi\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780872207356\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHackett Publishing Company, Inc.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2004\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e592\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eRepeatedly imprisoned for his printed attacks on the Spanish administration, Mexican journalist and publisher José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi attempted, in 1816, to make an end-run around government censors by disguising his invective as serial fiction. Lizardi's experiment in subterfuge quickly failed: Spanish officials shut down publication of the novel--the first to be published in Latin America--after the third installment, and within four years Lizardi was back in jail. The whole of \u003ci\u003eThe Mangy Parrot\u003ci\u003e (El Periquillo Sarniento) went unpublished until after Lizardi's death--and a decade after Mexico had won its independence from Spain.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough never before published in its entirety in English, \u003ci\u003eThe Mangy Parrot\u003ci\u003e has become a Mexican classic beloved by generations of Latin American readers. Now, in vibrant American idiom, translator David Frye captures the exuberance of Lizardi's tale-telling as the author follows his narrator and alter ego, Periquillo Sarniento, through a series of misadventures that exposes the ignorance and corruption plaguing Mexican society on the eve of the wars for independence. Raw descriptions of colonial street life, candid portraits of race and ethnicity, and barely camouflaged attacks on colonial authority fill this comic masterpiece of world literature--the \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003ci\u003e of Latin America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Mangy Parrot (UK) | Jose Joaquin Fernandez De Lizardi | Paperback | 9780872207356 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks G 1788841","offer_id":67857755177112,"sku":"1788841","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/611xSrfK_WL.jpg?v=1793495950","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/mangy-parrot-uk","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}