{"product_id":"down-with-the-poor-9781646052134","title":"Down with the Poor!","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Through the poetic force of her writing, Sinha brings a broken world to burning point.' --\u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led her to assault a refugee on the Paris metro. She too is a foreigner, now earning a living as an interpreter for asylum seekers in the outskirts of the city. \u003ci\u003eDown With the Poor!, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich borrows its title from a poem by Baudelaire, is the story of a woman who, little by little, is contaminated by the violence of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShumona Sinha is an award-winning Franco-Indian poet and novelist. Born in Calcutta, Sinha currently resides in Paris. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eDown With the Poor!\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), won the Prix du roman populiste 2011 and the Prix Valéry-Larbaud 2012 upon its publication in France. Her work addresses themes of immigration, exile, identity and womanhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator who lives in Chicago. She has translated over forty published works of non-fiction and fiction by authors ranging from Mircea Eliade (Journal III: 1970 1978) to Hédi Kaddour (Little Grey Lies; The Influence Peddlers), and Vénus Khoury-Ghata (The Last Days of Mandelstam - shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize), including the Nobel Laureate in Literature Jean-Marie LeClézio (The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations; Mydriasis Followed by To the Icebergs).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50673772101906,"sku":"9781646052134","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a7ac3232-f767-4793-8f90-f2d05212a8a2.jpg?v=1733842907","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/down-with-the-poor-9781646052134","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}