{"product_id":"the-bitch-a-novel","title":"The Bitch","description":"\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A perfect book.” —Kiran Desai, author of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Unforgettable. . . a powerful, jolting tale about class, motherhood and rage.” —The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this intense, spare, brilliantly observed novel, a woman’s dangerously primal feelings are awakened when she adopts an orphaned puppy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn prose as terse as the villagers Damaris lives among, The Bitch evokes the double-edged force of the instinct to nurture and the desperate desire to be nurtured in turn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55111098761440,"sku":"9798217434749","price":3100.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9798217434749.jpg?v=1790239477","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/products\/the-bitch-a-novel","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}