{"product_id":"9798217434749","title":"The Bitch","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY AND WILL BE RELEASED ON 01 SEPTEMBER 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this intense, spare, brilliantly observed novel, a woman's dangerously primal feelings are awakened when she adopts an orphaned puppy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn prose as terse as the villagers Damaris lives among, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e evokes the double-edged force of the instinct to nurture and the desperate desire to be nurtured in turn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated from the original Spanish by Lisa Dillman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quintana, Pilar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48094610260222,"sku":"9798217434749","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/1532\/4335\/files\/The_Bitch.png?v=1776828893","url":"https:\/\/wanderingraccoonbooks.com\/products\/9798217434749","provider":"Wandering Raccoon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}