{"product_id":"two-sherpas-9781913867416","title":"Two Sherpas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpas kneel at the edge, stand, exchange the odd word, waiting for him to move, to make a decision, to descend. In those minutes, the world opens up to Kathmandu, a sun-bleached beach town on another continent, and the pages of Julius Caesar. Mountaineering, colonialism, obligation--in Sebasti?n Mart?nez Daniell's effortless prose each breath is crystalline, and the whole world is visible from here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTambi?n disponible en espa?ol. (Also available in Spanish.)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSebastián Martínez Daniell\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Buenos Aires in 1971. He has published three novels, \u003cem\u003eSemana\u003c\/em\u003e (Week, 2004), \u003cem\u003ePrecipitaciones aisladas\u003c\/em\u003e (Isolated Showers, 2010) and \u003cem\u003eDos Sherpas\u003c\/em\u003e (Two Sherpas, 2018). His work has also been included in anthologies such as \u003cem\u003eBuenos Aires \/ Escala 1:1\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), \u003cem\u003eUno a uno\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), \u003cem\u003eHablar de mí\u003c\/em\u003e (2010) and \u003cem\u003eGolpes\u003c\/em\u003e . \u003cem\u003eRelatos y memorias de la dictadura\u003c\/em\u003e (2016). He is one of the co-founders of the independent publisher Entropía and is a literature lecturer at the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Croft\u003c\/strong\u003e won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel \u003cem\u003eThe Extinction of Irena Rey\u003c\/em\u003e, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir \u003cem\u003eHomesick\u003c\/em\u003e and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's \u003cem\u003eFlights.\u003c\/em\u003e She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Northwestern University and is a Presidential Professor at the University of Tulsa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Charco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626186936594,"sku":"9781913867416","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d35d5af3-7e92-48db-9305-7ae0cbd5b9af.jpg?v=1732650890","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/two-sherpas-9781913867416","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}