{"product_id":"nietzsche-on-his-balcony-9781628971583","title":"Nietzsche on His Balcony","description":"On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into revolution in the unnamed city below them. He reveals himself as the 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, permitted to revisit earth once a year for 24 hours based on his theory of eternal return. With tenderness and gallows humor, the novelist and the philosopher unflinchingly tell the story of the beginning of the revolution, its triumph, fanaticism, terror, and retrenchment: a story of love, friendship, family, commitment, passion, corruption, betrayal, violence, and hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarlos \u003cbr\u003eFuentes (1928-2012) was one of the most influential and celebrated \u003cbr\u003evoices in Latin American literature. He was the author of 24 novels, \u003cbr\u003eincluding \u003ci\u003eAura\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Artemio Cruz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Gringo\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTerra Nostra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e and also wrote numerous plays, short stories, and essays. He received \u003cbr\u003ethe 1987 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary \u003cbr\u003ehonor. Fuentes was born in Panama City, the son of Mexican parents, and \u003cbr\u003emoved to Mexico as a teenager. He served as an ambassador to England and\u003cbr\u003e France, and taught at universities including Harvard, Princeton, Brown \u003cbr\u003eand Columbia. \u003cbr\u003eE. Shaskan Bumas is a the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Prince of Tea in China\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for PEN America West Fiction Book of the Year. He teaches at New Jersey City University.\u003cbr\u003eAlejandro\u003cbr\u003e Branger is a writer and filmmaker. He lives in New York City. He is the\u003cbr\u003e co-translator of Carlos Fuentes's novellas \u003ci\u003eVlad\u003c\/i\u003e (Dalkey Archive Press, \u003cbr\u003e2012) and \u003ci\u003eAdam in Eden\u003c\/i\u003e (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50474448322834,"sku":"9781628971583","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e49e71be-022d-42a8-bf78-95425c523b9e.jpg?v=1730220969","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nietzsche-on-his-balcony-9781628971583","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}