{"title":"Juan Goytisolo","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"blind-rider-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852428631","title":"The Blind Rider","description":"In this novel, which Juan Goytisolo has said will be his last, a melancholy, angry old man reviews the precious moments of his life amid the disasters of contemporary history. Years of love end with the death of his wife: their flat, furniture and CDs go, even memories fade. He remembers tender moments with his mother, who was killed in a bomb-blast  unleashed by Fascists on Barcelona, the town he was born in. Together they would look at the stars and identify the brightest constellations.    For the narrator, the ideal writer is Tolstoy, an enlightened artistocrat who wished to free his serfs and bring up his children with progressive, humanist principles. Tolstoy?s characters embody dreams of a more intense, varied life: through them, the narrator discovers that freedom only exists in books. Like the books of W.G.Sebald and Italo Calvino, Blind Rider is a fictional memoir that spans a history of the last fifty years. Tender at a personal level, it is at a political level an angry rant at God?s lack of humanity: it confirms Goytisolo?s position as one of the most committed writers of our time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49509674352913,"sku":"GOR002541353","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49966866792721,"sku":"GOR003973680","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53099846238481,"sku":"GOR013023906","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852428635.jpg?v=1751249436"},{"product_id":"garden-of-secrets-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852426590","title":"The Garden of Secrets","description":"Over three weeks twenty-eight story-tellers - one for each letter in the Arabic alphabet - meet in a Marrakesh garden to tell the story of a poet, Eusebio, arrested in Melilla in the early days of the Spanish Civil War. Eusebio, a friend of Garcia Lorca and his Circle, escapes assassination and his life then escapes the control of a single destiny.   Some tales embroider his shadowy life with stories from Djemaa-el-Fna - the pasha's cook, the slave-market, Aysha and the stork... Does Eusebio betray his Fascist friends by confessing in a show-trial that they indulged in orgies with the youngsters from their battallions? Does he transform into Eugenio the world war two black marketeer from Tangiers? Or does he transmute into the world of Alphonse van Worden, doyen of Marrakesh queens with his Rolls, Indian chauffeur and home showings of Mary Pickford movies?   The reader has the final kaleidoscope version thanks to the violent,parodic, erotic images and language of an author invented by the story-tellers. In his latest book, Juan Goytisolo tells a moving story as he reflects on memory, history and the mythical power of  fiction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49534392762641,"sku":"GOR005357616","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852426594.jpg?v=1751433832"},{"product_id":"garden-of-secrets-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852428099","title":"The Garden of Secrets","description":"Over three weeks twenty-eight story-tellers - one for each letter in the Arabic alphabet - meet in a Marrakesh garden to tell the story of a poet, Eusebio, arrested in Melilla in the early days of the Spanish Civil War. Eusebio, a friend of Garcia Lorca and his Circle, escapes assassination and his life then escapes the control of a single destiny.   Some tales embroider his shadowy life with stories from Djemaa-el-Fna - the pasha's cook, the slave-market, Aysha and the stork... Does Eusebio betray his Fascist friends by confessing in a show-trial that they indulged in orgies with the youngsters from their battallions? Does he transform into Eugenio the world war two black marketeer from Tangiers? Or does he transmute into the world of Alphonse van Worden, doyen of Marrakesh queens with his Rolls, Indian chauffeur and home showings of Mary Pickford movies?  In The Garden of Secrets, Juan Goytisolo tells a moving story as he reflects on memory, history and the mythical power of  fiction.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49538288025873,"sku":"GOR001136777","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50634213064977,"sku":"CIN1852428090VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53505278148881,"sku":"CIN1852428090G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852428090.jpg?v=1751155320"},{"product_id":"nijar-country-book-juan-goytisolo-9780930829438","title":"Nijar Country","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49539692167441,"sku":"GOR009966231","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0930829433.jpg?v=1751077397"},{"product_id":"landscapes-after-the-battle-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852421137","title":"Landscapes After the Battle","description":"Trapped in his apartment in an immigrant district of Paris, the narrator is far from the high life of museums, elegant restaurants and boutiques.  Within this imprisonment, his thoughts oscillate between revolutionary terrorism and pre-pubescent sexuality - a concern he shares with Lewis Carroll. Mirroring the conventions of Arabic texts, Landscapes After the Battle is to be understood from the perspective of its end; an end where the relationship between writer, the reader and the written is revealed as playful and humorous.  The appearance of the comic in a novel by Juan Goytisolo is unexpected; like Dracula at a haemophiliacs? convention.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49550443315473,"sku":"GOR002414871","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50945337262353,"sku":"GOR007815555","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852421134.jpg?v=1751091353"},{"product_id":"count-julian-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852421588","title":"Count Julian","description":"Legend has it that Count Julian opened the gates of Spain to the Moorish invaders and introduced eight hundred years of Islamic influence.  The narrator dreams of another invasion of his fatherland. Destruction will be total - myths central to the Hispanic psyche will crumble: the myth of the Christian knight always ready to do battle to defend the faith, the myth of the macho male and its inverse the virgin female, and the myth of the heroic Spanish personality forged in the rout of Islam. The hatred of Spain is intense but it is a hatred that recognizes the debt the exile owes to his homeland.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49560434606353,"sku":"GOR004016326","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50459218411793,"sku":"GOR003040889","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50977105740049,"sku":"GOR004136773","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852421584.jpg?v=1751448360"},{"product_id":"exiled-from-almost-everywhere-book-juan-goytisolo-9781564786357","title":"Exiled from Almost Everywhere","description":"In \"Exiled from Almost Everywhere,\" Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist--the Parisian \"Monster of Le Sentier\"--is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite collection of computer monitors. His curiosity piqued, he uses the screens at hand to explore the multiple ways war and terrorism are hyped in the Hereafter of his old life where he once happily cruised bathrooms and accosted children. Ricocheting from life to death and back again, meeting various colorful demagogues along the way--the imam \"Alice,\" a pedophile Monsignor, and a Rastafarian rabbi--our \"Monster\" revisits seedy democracies that are a welter of shopping-cities and righteous violence voted in by an eternally duped citizenry and defended by the infamous erogenous bomb. At once fantastical and cruelly real, \"Exiled from Almost Everywhere\" hurtles the reader through our troubled times in a Swiftian series of grisly cartoon screenshots.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49561680216337,"sku":"GOR005213787","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50381666877713,"sku":"CIN1564786358G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037230989585,"sku":"NIN9781564786357","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52684639469841,"sku":"NLS9781564786357","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1564786358.jpg?v=1751308894"},{"product_id":"virtues-of-the-solitary-bird-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852421755","title":"The Virtues of the Solitary Bird","description":"For Goytisolo, great writers are ?solitary birds? whose voices are an enchanting cry that pierces time.  On his hospital bed, the persecuted narrator identifies with St John of the Cross. Through the scintillating successions of visions, soliloquies and ecstatic chants he converses with the banished saints.  The agencies of repression have changed but, as in the past, a hideous revenge will be wrought on the heretic.    Four hundred years ago, St  John creatively ransacked in his writing the cultures of Christianity, biblical Judaism and Muslim mysticism.  Juan Goytisolo now pays rich homage, with atonal dissonance and constant invention.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49566783013137,"sku":"GOR005622783","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51773068476689,"sku":"CIN1852421754VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52107474010385,"sku":"CIN1852421754A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53404916973841,"sku":"GOR014907973","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852421754.jpg?v=1751446777"},{"product_id":"cinema-eden-book-juan-goytisolo-9781900209168","title":"Cinema Eden","description":"No European writer knows the Islamic shores of the Mediterranean as intimately as Juan Goytisolo, who has lived and worked amongst Muslims for 30 years. In this series of essays Goytisolo celebrates a world where ritual matters and tradition is alive, where saints live, story-tellers weave their enchantments nightly and where honour and dignity preserve the importance of the individual. Like a window onto a parallel universe, Cinema Eden is a fascinating journey in itself, and a thought-provoking reflection on our own society.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49567565250833,"sku":"GOR006264620","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53027521560849,"sku":"CIN1900209160G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1900209160.jpg?v=1751124224"},{"product_id":"marks-of-identity-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852427672","title":"Marks of Identity","description":"A Spanish exile returns from Paris to his family home in Barcelona.  The first volume of Goytisolo's great trilogy which includes Count Julian and Juan the Landless, Marks of Identity is a revealing reflection on exile. Goytisolo comes to the conclusion that every man carries his own exile about with him, wherever he lives.  The narrator (Goytisolo) rejects Spain itself and searches instead for poetry, the word without history'   Marks of Identity is a shocking and influential work, and an affirmation of the ability of the individual to survive the political tyrannies of our time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49583120285969,"sku":"GOR003131749","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49980138553617,"sku":"GOR003735884","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50323273482513,"sku":"GOR013927371","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50392836538641,"sku":"CIN1852427671G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51421243310353,"sku":"GOR005189969","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852427671.jpg?v=1750996127"},{"product_id":"campos-de-nijar-book-juan-goytisolo-9788432210853","title":"Campos De Nijar","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49588994638097,"sku":"GOR003675775","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8432210854.jpg?v=1751222730"},{"product_id":"marks-of-identity-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852421342","title":"Marks of Identity","description":"A Spanish exile returns from Paris to his family home in Barcelona. His unease at being back reflects his deep ambivalence towards Spain and Spanishness.   In a prose of ferocious intensity, Goytisolo lays siege to the Spanish language and liberates himself by overturning its conventions, the semantic rules of Hispanic arrogance.   Having settled the score with his language, his culture and his political past, the author \/ narrator of Marks of Identity re-appropriates the existential freedom of the individual. For the anti-Francoist exile, this means accepting that ?the war is over? and rejecting nostalgia as the main source of political nourishment.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49591055778065,"sku":"GOR001527886","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49615104803089,"sku":"GOR005442272","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50499770417425,"sku":"GOR006461400","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51847374045457,"sku":"CIN1852421347VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51879524401425,"sku":"CIN1852421347G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852421347.jpg?v=1751123132"},{"product_id":"saracen-chronicles-book-juan-goytisolo-9780704370272","title":"Saracen Chronicles","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49592471290129,"sku":"GOR005494466","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50359698260241,"sku":"CIN0704370271G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0704370271.jpg?v=1751231086"},{"product_id":"duelo-en-el-paraiso-book-juan-goytisolo-9788423309962","title":"Duelo En El Paraiso","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49593259589905,"sku":"GOR002122258","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8423309967.jpg?v=1751160043"},{"product_id":"senas-de-identidad-book-juan-goytisolo-9788420638294","title":"Senas De Identidad","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49593799999761,"sku":"GOR003758399","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50412376326417,"sku":"GOR005100235","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51134447059217,"sku":"GOR003454038","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51329059455249,"sku":"CIN8420638293VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8420638293.jpg?v=1750839023"},{"product_id":"makbara-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852422660","title":"Makbara","description":"In Arabic,  the word 'Makbara' refers to those parts of North African cemeteries where young couples go to get away from their elders and hang out.   A celebration of Amour Fou, Makbara reveals Goytisolo's deep love for Arabic culture seen as sensuous and lewd in contrast to the drab sterility of the West. In a series of scenes, pastiches and travelling shots, Goytisolo exposes  cultural, sexual and political oppression. The author's message is of liberation through sex which, as he says, 'is above all freedom'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49601840185617,"sku":"GOR002155109","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50266561380625,"sku":"CIN1852422661VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852422661.jpg?v=1750866191"},{"product_id":"campos-de-nijar-book-juan-goytisolo-9780729301985","title":"Campos de Nijar","description":"Connect the dots is not just child's play. For adults, it is therapeutic and brain-boosting too  Adults who can connect the dots are known to be forward-thinkers and they have the ability to piece together information to understand the whole picture. When adults connect the dots, they retain information, follow instructions and better their focus too","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49618780848401,"sku":"GOR004292104","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49638466486545,"sku":"GOR004265627","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50468444274961,"sku":"GOR002669934","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0729301982.jpg?v=1750944915"},{"product_id":"state-of-siege-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852428396","title":"State of Siege","description":"A writer looks out from his hotel room in Sarajevo at a city under siege. He watches a woman struggling to avoid the snipers as she makes her way home. Suddenly a mortar explodes nearby and he is killed.  But by the time the Spanish military investigator arrives, the corpse has disappeared, leaving only a few personal effects and a notebook of stories and poems, marked with the initials, J.G.  As the investigator continues his search for the man?s identity, he begins to read the stories, of dreams of a rebellion of a city?s underclass, of a district of Paris under siege that is ignored by the rest of the city.  As he paints a compelling picture of a city laid waste by the barbarism of war, another picture begins to emerge, of a society so callous it is capable of standing by and watching its citizens be destroyed.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49620899430673,"sku":"GOR002366185","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50470120030481,"sku":"GOR004788477","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50896358834449,"sku":"GOR009089614","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852428392.jpg?v=1751450383"},{"product_id":"juan-the-landless-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852421922","title":"Juan the Landless","description":"The theme of Juan the Landless is exile. Juan is both landless and timeless. Exile has turned you into a completely different being, who has nothing to do with the one your countrymen once knew: their law is no longer your law: their justice is no longer your justice... as anonymous as the passing stranger, you will visit your own dwelling and dogs wil bark at your heels. A desperate attempt to see the world from the viewpoint of the other, it is Goytisolo's most total questioning of the possibility of fiction and language. The final volume in Goytisolo's great triology which includes Marks of Identity and Count Julian. Juan the Landless marks a turning-point in Goytisolo's work - from undiluted hostility to Spain towards a celebration of the Muslim contribution to our culture. It is for obvious reasons as relevant now as when it was written in 1975.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49623449501969,"sku":"GOR003495919","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50780020605201,"sku":"GOR010065002","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51804106096913,"sku":"CIN1852421924VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852421924.jpg?v=1751123134"},{"product_id":"quarantine-book-juan-goytisolo-9780704370722","title":"Quarantine","description":"Quarantine is the newest novel by one of Spain's most provocative writers. The novel recounts the forty days in which, according to Islamic tradition, the soul wanders between death and eternity, still in possession of a tenuous, dreamlike body. After the unexpected death of a friend, the narrator - a writer like Goytisolo - follows her in his imagination into this otherworld where all kinds of implausible (or are they?) things occur. Meanwhile, television and radio report the 40-day war in the Persian Gulf, and images of war's destruction mingle with the narrator's vivid imagination of the torments of the underworld. Simultaneously, the narrator is writing the novel we are reading, for writing itself is a kind of quarantine where the writer withdraws from the world to wander in the otherworld of the imagination. Quarantine is thus both an exploration of the human condition and an investigation of the writing process. It celebrates friendship and denounces war with equal force, and despite the grim themes is filled with humor, shocking surprises, playful language, and love.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49658164674833,"sku":"GOR004884281","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49967979200785,"sku":"GOR005369015","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0704370727.jpg?v=1751328487"},{"product_id":"forbidden-territory-and-realms-of-strife-book-juan-goytisolo-9781859845554","title":"Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife","description":"For forty-five years, the expatriate Juan Goytisolo has been widely acknowledged as both Spain's greatest living writer and its most scabrous critic. In some thirty books of fiction, autobiography, essays and journalism, he has turned the Spanish language against what he derides as 'Sunnyspain', flaying the 'Hispanos' while excavating their culture's Moorish and Jewish roots. This, his masterful two-volume autobiography first published in the mid-1980s, broke new ground in Spanish letters with its introspective sexual and emotional honesty. It charts the writer's unique journey from a Barcelona childhood violently disrupted by the Spanish civil war to student rebellion against the Francoist dictatorship and exile as a 'self-banished Spaniard' to Paris in 1956. In Paris, Goytisolo fell in love with Monique Lange, befriended Jean Genet, and discovered his own homosexuality as he supported the struggles for Algerian independence. His passionate, iconoclastic pen spares no one, least of all himself, in this striking portrayal of politics and sexuality in twentieth-century France and Spain.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49763699425553,"sku":"GOR003042150","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51056997302545,"sku":"NIN9781859845554","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51178573857041,"sku":"GOR011325294","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51783119831313,"sku":"CIN185984555XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/185984555X.jpg?v=1751439430"},{"product_id":"don-julian-book-juan-goytisolo-9788437620527","title":"Don Julian","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49909688926481,"sku":"CIN843762052XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50239977685265,"sku":"CIN843762052XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51259186544913,"sku":"GOR006146694","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/843762052X.jpg?v=1751286229"},{"product_id":"count-julian-book-juan-goytisolo-9780670005864","title":"Count Julian","description":"\u003cp\u003eegend has it that Count Julian opened the gates of Spain to the Moorish invaders and introduced eight hundred years of Islamic influence. The narrator dreams of another invasion of his fatherland. Destruction will be total - myths central to the Hispanic psyche will crumble: the myth of the Christian knight always ready to do battle to defend the faith, the myth of the macho male and its inverse the virgin female, and the myth of the heroic Spanish personality forged in the rout of Islam. The hatred of Spain is intense but it is a hatred that recognizes the debt the exile owes to his homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49939698516241,"sku":"CIN067000586XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/067000586X.jpg?v=1751327104"},{"product_id":"quarantine-book-juan-goytisolo-9781564780447","title":"Quarantine","description":"Quarantine, a novel by one of Spain's most provocative writers, recounts the forty days in which, according to Islamic tradition, the soul wanders between death and eternity, still in possession of a tenuous, dreamlike body. After the unexpected death of a friend, the narrator--a writer like Goytisolo--follows her in his imagination into this otherworld where all kinds of implausible (or are they?) things occur.Meanwhile, television and radio report the 40-day war in the Persian Gulf, and images of war's destruction mingle with the narrator's vivid imagination of the torments of the underworld. Simultaneously, the narrator is writing the novel we are reading, for writing itself is a kind of quarantine where the writer withdraws from the world to wander in the otherworld of the imagination.Quarantine is thus both an exploration of the human condition and an investigation of the writing process. It celebrates friendship and denounces war with equal force, and despite the grim themes is filled with humor, shocking surprises, playful language, and love.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49940570636561,"sku":"CIN1564780449G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52683889901841,"sku":"NLS9781564780447","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1564780449.jpg?v=1750991153"},{"product_id":"marx-family-saga-book-juan-goytisolo-9780872863491","title":"The Marx Family Saga","description":"In Juan Goytisolo's surreal fiction Karl and Jenny Marx sit on their sofa in Hampstead and watch a television documentary. Albanian refugees land on a private Italian beach flourishing photocopies of dollar bills in search of paradise Dallas. Find out how Karl reacts to the demise of the systems Josef Visionariovitch and Co. build on his word! Read all about the family life of the Marxes, moving upmarket from Dean Street to Highgate and beyond, yet never free of the hock shop!  A resurrected Marx visits scenes of former triumphs in Moscow, where MacLenin T-shirts and harmburger freedom are all the rage, and returns to a Hempstead housewarming reception and ball filmed by the cameras for a Merchant-Ivoryish Red Baroness--which subsequently becomes the subject of a Saturday-night talk-show featuring a feminist sexologist form UCLA, an anarchist form the Spanish Civil Bar, Bakunin . . .  But the narrator's publisher, the urbane pipe-smoking Mr. Faulkner, wants a bestselling novel, a proper story with real facts and heart-rending descriptions of the Marx menage. Some hope! Goytisolo returns to the techniques of his youth, sticks in a photo of Helen Demuth, the family servant. Why bother with all that description? Leave that to Balzac. Now was Marx or Engels the father of her child?  Juan Goytisolo's text, his most mordant satire yet, is a roller-coaster of bitter incentive and witty paradox, a verbal whip-lashing for the cheerleaders of the new world order.  \"The most important living novelist from Spain.\" —Guardian  \"The Marx Family Saga is a surreal fantasy . . . Witty, clever and entertaining as well as provocative and insightful, The Marx Family Saga is a remarkable achievement.\"--Danny Yee, Danny Reviews  Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931. Since 1956 he has lived in voluntary exile outside Spain and now divides his time between Paris and Marrakesh. His novels are The Virtues of the Solitary Bird and Quarantine.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50022889750801,"sku":"CIN0872863492G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52464907682065,"sku":"GOR002535667","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53519789457681,"sku":"GOR008870083","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53626050281745,"sku":"NIN9780872863491","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872863492.jpg?v=1778233042"},{"product_id":"drive-one-direction-book-dave-ramos-9781086196382","title":"Drive One Direction","description":"Every company is moving. But most are moving in a hundred different directions.In contrast, fast-lane companies apply intense management discipline to drive their organizations in One Direction. Dave Ramos, the CEO of SHIFTPOINTS, studied over 300 companies, interviewed over 100 Chief Executive Officers, and he came to One Conclusion: Alignment is the Ultimate Competitive AdvantageTM  Harvard Business School professors Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton confirm this idea, Alignment, much like the synchronism achieved by a high-performance rowing crew, produces dramatic benefits.This book contains over fifty case studies about fast-lane companies including Amazon, Tesla, Netflix, and more. It presents a comprehensive methodology that will help your company unleash the accelerating power of alignment.So, is everyone in your organization driving in One Direction?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50029306249489,"sku":"CIN1086196384VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51231060623633,"sku":"NIN9781086196382","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1086196384.jpg?v=1751080508"},{"product_id":"the-party-s-over-rare-book-juan-goytisolo-1653477853emb","title":"The Party's Over","description":"1968. Panther Edition. 188 pages. Illustrated paper cover. Moderate tanning to pages with heavy foxing and ink marks throughout. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and major ink marks and ta","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50072466718993,"sku":"1653477853EMB","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1653477853EMB_1.jpg?v=1722876598"},{"product_id":"fiestas-rare-book-juan-goytisolo-1678999847dpb","title":"Fiestas","description":"1966. First Edition Thus. 175 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Neat, clean, with heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Occasional thumbing throughout and mild cracking to","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50075735949585,"sku":"1678999847DPB","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1678999847DPB_1.jpg?v=1722888243"},{"product_id":"fiestas-rare-book-juan-goytisolo-1663186989bdo","title":"Fiestas","description":"1961. 245 pages. Black pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Herbert Weinstock. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are in good condition with a firm binding. Endpape","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50076395307281,"sku":"1663186989BDO","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1663186989BDO_1.jpg?v=1722890468"},{"product_id":"duelo-en-el-paraiso-rare-book-juan-goytisolo-1678791011mhp","title":"Duelo en el Paraiso","description":"1974. Sixth Edition. 283 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth. Spanish text. Pages are bright and clear with light foxing and tanning to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50079093489937,"sku":"1678791011MHP","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1678791011MHP_1.jpg?v=1722900255"},{"product_id":"el-circo-rare-book-juan-goytisolo-1669639216crb","title":"El Circo","description":"1957. Primera Edicion. 246 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Illustrated paper covered boards with cloth spine. Textblock is in Spanish. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscripti","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50079895716113,"sku":"1669639216CRB","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1669639216CRB_1.jpg?v=1722902857"},{"product_id":"sands-of-torremolinos-rare-book-juan-goytisolo-1713855208alk","title":"Sands of Torremolinos","description":"1969. Reprinted. 128 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Minor dog-eared corners. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curli","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50091323556113,"sku":"1713855208ALK","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1713855208ALK_1.jpg?v=1722943346"},{"product_id":"la-isla-rare-book-juan-goytisolo-1719912317alk","title":"La Isla","description":"1961. No Edition Remarks. 171 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over grey paper covered boards. Spanish text. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription t","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50093254934801,"sku":"1719912317ALK","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1719912317ALK_1.jpg?v=1722949654"},{"product_id":"marks-of-identity-book-juan-goytisolo-9781564784537","title":"Marks of Identity","description":"An exile returns to Spain from France to find that he is repelled by the fascism of Franco's Spain and drawn to the world of Muslim culture. In this novel, Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain's most celebrated novelists, speaks for a generation of Spaniards who were small children during the Spanish Civil War, grew up under a stifling dictatorship, and, in many cases, emigrated in desperation from their dying country.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50207286558993,"sku":"CIN1564784533VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50501265424657,"sku":"CIN1564784533G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1564784533.jpg?v=1751213449"},{"product_id":"makbara-book-juan-goytisolo-9781564785060","title":"Makbara","description":"In Makbara, Juan Goytisolo—widely considered Spain’s greatest living writer—again dazzles the reader with his energetic, stylistic prose, which he himself compares to a snake: cunning, sly, sinuous. But the themes in Makbara are perhaps more universal than in his earlier works. Makbara is full of its own kind of warmth, humor, and love. After all, makbara is an Arab word referring to the spot in North African cemeteries where young couples meet for romantic encounters. Sex, for Goytisolo, is clearly the greatest cosmic joke, the great leveller. “Sex,” he says, “is above all freedom.”","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50381631226129,"sku":"CIN1564785068G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037397418257,"sku":"NIN9781564785060","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52683779539217,"sku":"NLS9781564785060","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1564785068.jpg?v=1751276301"},{"product_id":"count-julian-book-juan-goytisolo-9781564784841","title":"Count Julian","description":"Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the Landless), this story of an exiled Spaniard confronts all of Goytisolo's own worst fears about fascist Spain.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50390201991441,"sku":"CIN1564784843G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51036867756305,"sku":"NIN9781564784841","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52681022439697,"sku":"NLS9781564784841","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52766283038993,"sku":"GOR009411689","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53364655456529,"sku":"CIN1564784843VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1564784843.jpg?v=1751341301"},{"product_id":"juan-the-landless-book-juan-goytisolo-9781564785275","title":"Juan the Landless","description":"Juan Goytisolo's radical revision of his masterpiece Juan the Landless is the starting-point for this new translation by renowned translator Peter Bush. The new text focuses on Goytisolo's surreal exploration and rejection of his own roots, Catholic Spain's repression of Muslims, Jews and gays, his ancestors' exploitation of Cuban slaves and his own forging of a language at once poetic, politic and ironic that celebrates the erotic act of writing and and the anarchic joy of being the ultimate outsider. In Juan the Landless the greatest living novelist from Spain defiantly re-invents tradition and the world as a man without a home, without a country, in praise of pariahs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50390219161873,"sku":"CIN1564785270G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037252157713,"sku":"NIN9781564785275","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52684015829265,"sku":"NLS9781564785275","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1564785270.jpg?v=1751119026"},{"product_id":"coto-vedado-book-juan-goytisolo-9788420638270","title":"Coto Vedado","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50399035687185,"sku":"CIN8420638277VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8420638277.jpg?v=1750807415"},{"product_id":"cogitus-interruptus-book-juan-goytisolo-9788432207877","title":"Cogitus Interruptus","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50406586319121,"sku":"CIN843220787XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/843220787X.jpg?v=1751319110"},{"product_id":"cock-eyed-comedy-book-juan-goytisolo-9781852428198","title":"A Cock-eyed Comedy","description":"God works in mysterious ways...  and  in A Cock-Eyed Comedy Goytisolo takes on the Spanish Catholic church in a book which is both a comedy and a sharp attack on authority and conformity.  Father de Trennes is a member of the staunchly conservative right wing Catholic organisation Opus Dei.  Although in his case his search is for sex rather than God. A cast of historical characters, including philosopher Roland Barthes, Jean Genet and Argentine writer Manuel Puig, meet and mingle with a host of imaginary ones in an orgiastic romp until AIDS takes its toll on them all.  Joe Orton meets Father Ted in this knockabout comedy which is also a vicious satire on the darker side of the history of the church: a church with many skeletons in its closet.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50878152081681,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50878152376593,"sku":"GOR007646957","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1852428198.jpg?v=1751412322"},{"product_id":"landscapes-of-war-book-juan-goytisolo-9780872863736","title":"Landscapes of War","description":"Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya is an incisive examination of the tensions that exist between the West and Islamic societies of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. These essays, originating in Goytisolo's travels in the late 1990s, provide rich historical analysis and moving first-person reportage of life in four explosive war-zones: Sarajevo, Algeria, the West Bank and Gaza, and Chechnya. From the 17th century to the Gulf War, the West has regarded Islam as the enemy on the doorstep, and this book elucidates how relations between Islam and the West continue to be shaped in a climate of ideological, political, and cultural confrontation.  Goytisolo examines the fratricidal frenzy in Algeria and the war waged by French police against North African migrants in France, and he describes a besieged Sarajevo transformed into a concentration camp surrounded by barbed wire. He contemplates the despair and poverty of Palestinian youth living in the Occupied Territories and details the brutality of the Russian war in the Caucasus. Whether reporting on the fate of the Bosnians after the break up of the former Yugoslavia or analyzing the growing appeal of fundamentalisms - Islamic, Jewish, and Russian Orthodox - Goytisolo displays the same blend of intelligence, vision, and warm fellow-feeling that has made him one the most imposing literary figures of our time.  Many of these succinct and eloquent essays first appeared in Spain's leading newspaper El Pais, and English translations were published in the Times Literary Supplement (London).  Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931. In 1993 he was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize for his literary achievement and contribution to world culture. His translated works include a two volume autobiography, Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife, the trilogy Marks of Identity, Count Julian and Juan the Landless, and the essays, Saracen Chronicles. Other works by him and published by City Lights Publishers includeThe Marx Family Saga, published in 1999, and A Cock-Eyed COmedy published in 2005.  Peter Bush is Director of the British Center for Literary Translation and translated Juan Goytisolo's The Marx Family Saga, which was awarded the Premio Valle-Inclan.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009043366161,"sku":"NIN9780872863736","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51329621590289,"sku":"CIN0872863735G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51840973111569,"sku":"GOR014421991","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52535388537105,"sku":"NLS9780872863736","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52816241164561,"sku":"CIN0872863735VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872863735.jpg?v=1750703865"},{"product_id":"state-of-siege-book-juan-goytisolo-9780872864061","title":"State of Siege","description":"A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is found. These enigmas lead into a labyrinth, where blind and barbarous forces lay siege to individual lives and diverse cultures.  \"State of Siege is a novel of pure fiction, but infinitely more powerful than all the big speeches about Bosnia.\"-Le Nouvel Observateur  \"A passionate dialogue with the reader, a reflection on privacy and commitment [engagement], with the steady vigilant presence of a great literary voice.\"-Le Monde  \"The reader is thrown into the unreality of a besieged city, as if a firm hand had rudely pushed him out of the tank that brought him from the airport.\"-L'Express  \"For the Spaniard Juan Goytisolo, writing is a dangerous adventure.\" -Lire  \"Dreams, reminiscences of the war in Spain, thoughts on the novel, borrowings from mystery and detective fiction, references to ancient cultures and Arabic culture, numerous allusions to the narrative structure of Don Quixote-these make up the form of this novel that, as the author says in an ironic and provocative way, isn't written 'according to the rules.'\"-Fayard Presse  Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931 and lives in Marrakech. In 1993, he was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize for his literary achievement and contribution to world culture. His translated works include a two-volume autobiography, Forbidden Territory and Realms of Strife, the novels Marks of Identity, Count Julian, Juan the Landless, Quarantine, Virtues of a Solitary Bird, The Marx Family Saga, and The Garden of Secrets, and the essays Saracen Chronicles and Landscapes of War.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009234501905,"sku":"NIN9780872864061","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51256157798673,"sku":"GOR014209755","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52466552307985,"sku":"GOR012719047","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53414457540881,"sku":"CIN0872864065VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872864065.jpg?v=1750980600"},{"product_id":"campos-de-nijar-book-juan-goytisolo-9789180076029","title":"Campos de Níjar","description":"Zum Geleit Fast alle B cher von Goytisolo wurden ins Deutsche  bersetzt, au er La chanca und Campos de N jar. Sie waren den Verlegern etwas zu linkslastig. Deshalb habe ich die Aufgabe  bernommen, sie zu  bersetzen. Das tat ich vor  ber 40 Jahren und das erste Buch ist erschienen und dann ging dem kleinen Verlag das Geld aus. Er schickte mir weder die  bersetzung noch dazu geh rende Fotos zur ck. Deswegen  bersetzte ich jetzt das Buch zum 2. Mal. Beide B cher haben mich von Anfang an fasziniert und ergriffen. Das erste handelt von einem Stadtviertel in Almeria, wo die Roma in erb rmlichen Verh ltnissen lebten. Und dies Buch handelt von der sehr gro en Gemeinde Campos de N jar, wo Spanier fast eben so miserabel lebten wie die Zigeuner in La Chanca. Ich besuchte sie 1981 und war entsetzt. Doch jetzt, nach genau 40 Jahren, habe ich mir erneut im Netz diese Gemeinde angeschaut. Sie war fast nicht wiederzuerkennen. Die ganze Region hat sich gr ndlich verwandelt. Die D rfer sind renoviert, modernisiert und liebevoll geschm ckt worden. Die Gemeinde hat es vermieden, den eigenen Strand mit Bettenburgen zuzubauen, sondern hat stattdessen ein riesengro es Naturreservat halb auf dem Land und zur H lfte im Meer angelegt mit einem supermodernen Museum. Die Gemeinde ist zu einer Perle des spanischen Tourismus geworden. Deswegen habe ich dem Buch noch ein paar Seiten angeh ngt, um diese tolle Verwandlung dem Leser vor Augen zu f hren.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51263717212433,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51263719997713,"sku":"NIN9789180076029","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52406946234641,"sku":"NLS9789180076029","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9180076025.jpg?v=1750903975"},{"product_id":"campos-de-nijar-book-juan-goytisolo-9788432230066","title":"Campos De Nijar","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51767806066961,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51767806230801,"sku":"GOR006038548","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9788432230066.jpg?v=1751451998"},{"product_id":"etat-de-siege-book-juan-goytisolo-9782213602158","title":"Etat de siège","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52859422441745,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52859423850769,"sku":"NIN9782213602158","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"juegos-de-manos-book-juan-goytisolo-9788423306794","title":"Juegos De Manos","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53177094897937,"sku":"GOR007967766","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53184624984337,"sku":"GOR006954384","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9788423306794.jpg?v=1772198415"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-juan-goytisolo.oembed?page=3","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}