{"product_id":"the-summer-of-the-serpent-hardcover-by-cecilia-eudave-translated-by-robin-myers","title":"The Summer of the Serpent Hardcover by Cecilia Eudave; translated by Robin Myers","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\u003eSoho Press\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-06-30)\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\u003e144\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781641295826\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e249.48\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e21.01 x 13.31 x 1.55\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis surreal, horror-tinged, Guadalajara-set work of Latin American “literature of the unusual” is a kaleidoscopic descent into the small violences and hidden horrors of one sweltering summer, forming a coil of vignettes that slither under the skin for a strange, deeply human portrait of memory, myth, and family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fans of Samanta Schweblin, Mónica Ojeda, and Brenda Lozano.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuadalajara, Mexico, 1977. In a quiet residential neighborhood, children witness things they can never forget: a serpent girl weeping in a carnival glass box, a neighbor who dangles his dog from a tree, and a ghost who returns night after night, desperate to tell its story. Meanwhile, the grown-ups drift through the season half oblivious, their spirits eroding as the relentless summer wears on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold in colliding voices—children and adults, ghosts and the haunted, the living and the almost-invisible—\u003ci\u003eThe Summer of the Serpent\u003c\/i\u003e is a prismatic portrait of the past, where memory is shot through with myth. Each narrator offers a fragment of the truth, until the stories twist together into a shape as elusive and mesmerizing as the boa constrictor that winds its way through the neighborhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStrange yet deeply human, this brilliantly fragmented novel captures the moment when childhood innocence begins to corrode—and how those memories can coil through a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCecilia Eudave \u003c\/b\u003elives in Guadalajara, Mexico, and teaches at the Universidad de Guadalajara. She is the author of the story collections \u003ci\u003eTécnicamente humanos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEn primera persona\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRegistro de imposibles\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the novel \u003ci\u003eBestiaria vida\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Juan García Ponce Literary Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and translator. Her translations include Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s \u003ci\u003eWe Are Green and Trembling\u003c\/i\u003e (for which she won the National Book Award for translated literature), Andrés Neuman’s Bariloche, Isabel Zapata’s \u003ci\u003eIn Vitro\u003c\/i\u003e, Eliana Hernández-Pachón’s \u003ci\u003eThe Brush\u003c\/i\u003e, and (with Sarah Booker) Cristina Rivera Garza’s \u003ci\u003eDeath Takes Me\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46627987816609,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781641295826","price":34.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781641295826.jpg?v=1782806723","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/the-summer-of-the-serpent-hardcover-by-cecilia-eudave-translated-by-robin-myers","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}