{"product_id":"electric-shamans-at-the-festival-of-the-sun","title":"Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Sarah Booker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ear is the organ of fear. It is a door to that which is not of this world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeaving behind the dread and decay of the city, Noa and her best friend, Nicole, travel up into the Andes, heading for Solar Noise: an eight-day festival that takes place on the side of a volcano, in the infinite expanse of the páramo. A world of mysticism and underground music, in tune with the thunder of the earth and the bellows of the mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNoa has been drawn there in search of her father, who, wrestling with the violence of Ecuador, abandoned her as a child. But soon after their arrival at the festival, Noa appears possessed, speaking in a voice that is not her own. Believing Noa to be in danger, Nicole struggles to care for her friend. Until, as the party spills into Inti Raymi – the Incan festival of the sun – the girls’ desire for belonging burns, incandescent, collapsing the thin membrane separating life from death, and trauma from transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWild and incantatory, Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun is both an hallucinogenic trip of a novel, and a heartfelt meditation on love, family and kinship – one that announces the arrival of a major writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMónica Ojeda is the author of four novels, including Jawbone, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Translation, as well as three collections of poetry and a collection of short stories. She was selected as one of Granta‘s Best of Young Spanish-language novelists in 2021, and was included in the Bogotá39 list in 2017. Born in Ecuador, she is now based in Madrid, Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e~ ~ ~ ~ ~\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mónica Ojeda is a shining black sun on the birth chart of contemporary terror\" - Fernanda Melchor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I read Mónica Ojeda with fear and fascination. As if I were reading a spell, as if I were eating meat fearing something sharp in it. So poetic, so disturbing and brutal\" - Samanta Schweblin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One of the best writers of her generation\" - Agustina Bazterrica\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53617671864667,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/8951\/5850\/files\/zabriskie_ElectricShamansattheFestivaloftheSun.jpg?v=1784550057","url":"https:\/\/zabriskie.de\/products\/electric-shamans-at-the-festival-of-the-sun","provider":"Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}