{"product_id":"the-dinner-guest-paperback-by-gabriela-ybarra","title":"The Dinner Guest Paperback by Gabriela Ybarra","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eHarvill Secker\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2018-07-24)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e160\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781910701980\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e192.78\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.5 x 5.4 x 0.49\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Guest\u003c\/i\u003e is Gabriela Ybarra’s prizewinning literary debut: a singular autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story goes that in my family there’s an extra dinner guest at every meal. He’s invisible, but always there. He has a plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often he appears, casts his shadow over the table, and erases one of those present. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first to vanish was my grandfather.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1977, three terrorists broke into Gabriela Ybarra’s grandfather’s home, and pointed a gun at him in the shower. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was the last time his family saw him alive, and his kidnapping played out in the press, culminating in his murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ybarra first heard the story when she was eight, but it was only after her mother’s death, years later, that she felt the need to go deeper and discover more about her family’s past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Guest\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel, with the feel of documentary non-fiction.  It connects two life-changing events – the very public death of Ybarra’s grandfather, and the more private pain as her mother dies from cancer and Gabriela cares for her. Devastating yet luminous, the book is an investigation, marking the arrival of a talented new voice in international fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriela Ybarra\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Bilbao in 1983. She currently lives in Madrid, where she writes and works in social media analysis. \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Guest \u003c\/i\u003eis her first novel\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand was published to critical acclaim in Spain, where it won the Euskadi Literature Prize 2016. Her work has appeared in publications such as \u003ci\u003eEl País\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eABC \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRevista Eñe\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatasha Wimmer\u003c\/b\u003e’s translations include Álvaro Enrigue’s \u003ci\u003eYou Dreamed of Empires\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSudden Death \u003c\/i\u003eand Roberto Bolaño’s \u003ci\u003eThe Savage Detectives \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e2666\u003c\/i\u003e. 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