{"product_id":"books-hunger-s-brides-by-paul-anderson","title":"Hunger's Brides","description":"On a frigid winter's night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding.  In his hands he clutches a box he has found there.  He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer, whose last affair has left his career in ruins.  She is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students and for a brief time his lover.  She had disappeared into Mexico two years earlier, following her obsession with Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz, who was born in 1648, entered a convent at age nineteen, and became the greatest poet of her time, only to die of plague in 1695.  As a police investigation closes in around Gregory, he examines the box's contents, fearful of incriminating evidence Beulah may have against himtranslated poems of Sor Juana, a travel journal, research notes on the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the Inquisition, diary entries concerning him, and a strange manuscript about Sor Juana.  Based on the life of one of literature's most compelling figures, Paul Anderson's astonishing debut unveils a great poet's withdrawal from the world who at the height of her creative powers signs a vow of contrition in her own blood.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670594478353,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780786715411.jpg?v=1781511431","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-hunger-s-brides-by-paul-anderson","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}