{"product_id":"sacrifices-stories-9781644211748b","title":"Sacrifices: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eThese revelatory short stories tread the line between surrealism and realism with strange, appealing characters who take on a sacrifice in spite of themselves.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA followup to his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Night\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Rive Gauche à Paris Prize for foreign books in 2016), this collection of short stories by Venezuelan literary star Rodrigo Blanco Calderón features a taxidermist painter, a blind man lost in Mexico City, a female motorcyclist who rides naked through the night, a foreigner who learns a language making confessions in Paris churches, and a dying pilot who finds peace in a reading of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eImpeccable and masterful in his storytelling, Blanco Calderón constructs a nocturnal cast of characters who become the victims and executioners of a sacrifice in the midst of a floundering Venezuela, others with the threat of terrorism in France, or in a Mexico symbolizing the first shots of the revolution.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822278053968,"sku":"9781644211748B","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781644211748-l.jpg?v=1785887279","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/sacrifices-stories-9781644211748b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}