{"title":"Mateo García Elizondo","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"last-date-in-el-zapotal-book-mateo-garca-elizondo-9781913867843","title":"Last Date in El Zapotal","description":"A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts .  This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die – to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive, though, he can’t stop clinging to the past. His old dog, Kid, who he abandoned. His love, Valerie, who he introduced to drugs. There’s no such thing as a good memory.  El Zapotal doesn’t want him either. The people aren’t welcoming, the streets are empty except for strays, and he’s having trouble pacing his supply. As the drugs run out, the line between what’s real and what’s not blurs to the point of illegibility, and we’re left wandering a tenderly described hinterland of despair, hunger, and regret. García Elizondo has given us an homage to Pedro Páramo , a descent for the ages, a long goodbye with no clear line between the living and dead.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49780367687953,"sku":"NGR9781913867843","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49855678578961,"sku":"GOR013800171","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49905795039505,"sku":"GOR013810942","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51058377883921,"sku":"NIN9781913867843","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51449699434769,"sku":"GOR014284477","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1913867846.jpg?v=1751219173"},{"product_id":"una-cita-con-la-lady-book-mateo-elizondo-9780593082843","title":"Una Una cita con la Lady","description":"\u003cb\u003eGalardonado con el Premi Ciutat de Barcelona, 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eUn viaje espectral entre la vida y la muerte, entre el amor y su pérdida en este impresionante debut de Mateo García Elizondo ​\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e «Vine a Zapotal para morirme de una buena vez. En cuanto puse un pie en el pueblo me deshice de lo que traía en los bolsillos, de las llaves de la casa que dejé abandonada en la ciudad, y de todo el plástico, todo lo que tenía mi nombre o la fotografía de mi rostro. No me quedan más que tres mil pesos, doscientos gramos de goma de opio y un cuarto de onza de heroína, y con esto me tiene que alcanzar para matarme.» El protagonista y narrador de esta novela va en busca de la cita definitiva con la lady en forma de polvo blanco, y para ello emprende un viaje al final de la noche en el que se sucederán encuentros con personajes inquietantes, con los fantasmas de los amigos muertos por el camino, con los recuerdos de la gran ciudad que ha dejado atrás y con su propio pasado.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e La primera frase de la novela evoca el mítico inicio del \u003ci\u003ePedro Páramo\u003c\/i\u003e de Rulfo, y hay en sus páginas ecos del grotesco carnaval mexicano de autodestrucción de \u003ci\u003eBajo el volcán\u003c\/i\u003e de Malcolm Lowry. Con una prosa envolvente e hipnótica, Mateo García Elizondo narra, en este asombroso y extraordinario debut, un viaje al corazón de las tinieblas, el espectral descenso a los infiernos de un adicto que se adentra en una senda con un único destino posible, que está cada vez más cerca.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A haunting journey between life and death, between love and loss in this notable debut novel by Mateo García Elizondo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e «I came to Zapotal to die once and for all. As soon as I set foot in town, I got rid of everything I had in my pockets, the keys to the house I left behind, and anything that had my name or my picture on it. All I have left are three thousand pesos, two hundred grams of opium and a quarter of an ounce of heroin, and that should be enough to kill myself.\" The protagonist, and also narrator, of this novel goes in search of a final date with \"the lady\" in the form of a white powder, and for this he undertakes a journey in which he will come across disturbing characters, the ghosts of friends that have died along the way, memories of the great city that he left behind, and he will also face his own past.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this amazing and extraordinary debut novel, Mateo García Elizondo narrates the spectral descent of an addict into the depths of hell.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50353984045329,"sku":"CIN0593082842G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53024322453777,"sku":"CIN0593082842VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0593082842.jpg?v=1751262237"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-mateo-garca-elizondo.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}