{"product_id":"the-bitch","title":"The Bitch","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Bitch\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePilar Quintana\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9798217434749\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRiverhead Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\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\u003e160\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A perfect book.\" --Kiran Desai, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Unforgettable. . . a powerful, jolting tale about class, motherhood and rage.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this intense, spare, brilliantly observed novel, a woman's dangerously primal feelings are awakened when she adopts an orphaned puppy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a bluff overlooking Colombia's rough Pacific coast, at the edge of the jungle--a world where nothing is taken for granted -Damaris lives in a shack with her fisherman husband. Her dream of a child unfulfilled and the warmth of her marriage cooled, she has reached the age \"when women dry up,\" as her uncle puts it. When the opportunity arises, she takes in a motherless puppy with eagerness and immediate affection. She does not yet know the risk she is taking in forging a bond that touches her most painful losses and her tenderest yearnings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn prose as terse as the villagers Damaris lives among, \u003ci\u003eThe Bitch\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the double-edged force of the instinct to nurture and the desperate desire to be nurtured in turn.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"The Bitch | Pilar Quintana | Paperback | 9798217434749 | New | Fiction 1767261","offer_id":49782807953560,"sku":"1767261","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81PN4jM6xTL.jpg?v=1788289368","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-bitch","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}