{"product_id":"this-is-not-miami","title":"Fernanda Melchor: This Is Not Miami [2023] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, \u003cem\u003eThis Is Not Miami\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a series of devastating stories - spiralling from real events - that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These \u003cem\u003ecronicas\u003c\/em\u003e - a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non-fiction and novelistic forms - probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them - and even empathize - despite our wish to disdain them as monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels \u003cem\u003eHurricane Season \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eParadais\u003c\/em\u003e, and once again brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes, Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Melchor, Fernanda \u0026 Hughes, Sophie","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46499626189139,"sku":"9781804270189","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/products\/melchor-fernanda-hughes-sophie-this-is-not-miami-9781804270189-49010854920531.jpg?v=1680987407","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/this-is-not-miami","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}