{"product_id":"time-of-silence-9798896230038","title":"Time of Silence","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel--a sort of Spanish \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya--available here in a new translation and with previously censored material restored.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis novel of abortion and murder set in the squalor of the first decade of General Franco's dictatorship follows a few days in the life of Don Pedro, a cancer research scientist with Nobel ambitions. His dallying with literary and philosophical coteries, his hunt for the right strain of experimental mice in Madrid's slums, and the table talk in his boarding-house where his landlady wants to engineer marriage with her granddaughter aren't the stuff of social realism, but of an original stream of consciousness, a series of lyrical, meditative, playful and jaundiced tableaux of a society that has hit rock-bottom after years of an authoritarian rule that is but the latest in a series of disasters in the decline of a nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in 1962, Luis Martín-Santos's novel is a masterpiece of contemporary Spanish fiction, and its linguistic inventiveness and imaginative encompass of depressed individuals struggling to survive make it a fictional \u003ci\u003efleur du mal\u003c\/i\u003e for our times. Martín-Santos draws on the black humor of Goya and the wit of Joyce to create the vision of a world beyond hope redeemed solely by genial self-mockery. This new translation restores all that was axed by the censors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuis Martín-Santos\u003c\/b\u003e (1924-1964) was a Moroccan-born Spanish writer and psychiatrist, best known for his novel \u003ci\u003eTime of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Bush \u003c\/b\u003eis an award-winning translator of Catalan, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. His translations include Josep Pla's \u003ci\u003eThe Gray Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2014 Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation, Joan Sales's \u003ci\u003eUncertain Glory \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWinds of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, and Honoré de Balzac's \u003ci\u003eThe Lily in the Valley\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51500683919634,"sku":"9798896230038","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5ca4539a-1fc9-4057-8c52-824c6dc48d02.jpg?v=1753197529","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/time-of-silence-9798896230038","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}