{"product_id":"before-paperback","title":"Before - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarmen Boullosa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Bush\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eBBC\u003c\/i\u003e's 10 Books to Read in August\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ean altogether fresh take on the coming-of-age story...Boullosa manages to merge humor with panic seamlessly. -- Publishers Weekly Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarmen Boullosa is, in my opinion, a true master.--Alvaro Mutis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart bildungsroman, part ghost story, part revenge novel, \u003ci\u003eBefore \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to overcome the fear that held her captive as a girl. This powerful exploration of the path to womanhood and lost innocence won Mexico's two most prestigious literary prizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarmen Boullosa\u003c\/b\u003e, one of Mexico's leading writers, has published nearly twenty novels. Her most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eTexas: The Great Theft\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2014 Typographical Era Translation Award and was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Translation Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. She has published over a dozen novels, two of which were designated the Best Novel Published in Mexico by the prestigious magazine Reformaher second novel, \u003ci\u003eBefore\u003c\/i\u003e, also won the renowned Xavier Villarutia Prize for Best Mexican Novel; and her novel \u003ci\u003eLa otra mano de Lepanto\u003c\/i\u003e was also selected as one of the Top 100 Novels Published in Spanish in the past 25 years. Her most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eTexas: The Great Theft\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2014 Typographical Era Translation Award, and was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Translation Award. Boullosa has received numerous prizes and honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship. Also a poet, playwright, essayist, and cultural critic, Boullosa is a Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York, and her books have been translated into Italian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese, and Russian. \u003cbr\u003ePeter Bush is an award-winning literary translator of Spanish, Catalan, French, and Portuguese from the UK. A former director of the British Centre for Literary Translation, Peter became a professor of Literary Translation at Middlesex University and later the University of East Anglia. \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 02, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700463898687,"sku":"9781941920282","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a543acae2f2ce4c63a14ceab8f0c2838.webp?v=1765016849","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/before-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}