{"product_id":"event-10-02-raquel-abend-and-lizzie-davis-in-conversation","title":"ONLINE EVENT 10\/02: Raquel Abend and Lizzie Davis in conversation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoin us for a fantastic evening with Venezuelan author Raquel Abend and translator Lizzie Davis to discuss their upcoming novel, \u003cem\u003eBloat:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a delirious and compelling book about women trapped in an oil-soaked dystopia. Raquel and Lizzie will be in conversation with Evelyn Heis (Host of It's Lit in Translation podcast) and will be discussing what it was like to bring this novel from Venezuela to our doorstep. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is an online event, so you can tune in from anywhere! Ticket holders will be emailed the Zoom link ahead of the event. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWednesday 10th of February\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVenue: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eYour house! (Online)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTime: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eDiscussion at 19:00. Finish approx 20:00.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTickets: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e£2 ticket only\u003cbr\u003e£12.99 ticket with \u003cem\u003eBloat\u003c\/em\u003e (paperback) \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe will be sending all ticket holders a Zoom link ahead of the event to tune in. Please make sure to check your junk folders! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE BOOK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBloat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“My fellow Venezuelans, we’re going to swim in black gold. Remember this year: 1999. We’re not just reclaiming our spring, our Thames, our Seine. We’re reclaiming our country.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMercedita lives with her mother and grandmother, reeling from the recent death of her father and the intrusion of investigators into their home. Across the street is Merced, a sex worker entangled with an oil executive, soon to have a baby. Not far away, Mercedes – known to all as Mamé – runs La Tasca, a once thriving bar, now grave-quiet as the boom times come to an end. Mercy, who works at a restaurant frequented by the powerful, is sent home after coughing up blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese four women are connected by the alternate Caracas they inhabit, by their female bodies, by their strength in the face of the fear and violence which shadows them – and by the oil around which the life of the city and country revolves, even as the fields dry up and the executives implement a new and unsettling system of production. In visceral and absorbing prose, \u003cem\u003eBloat\u003c\/em\u003e explores exploitation, beauty and power, conjuring up a world that is not quite ours, but is hauntingly familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"tellAmazon_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"celwidget c-f\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"CardInstance1elj56Tjh97V9Y5zXCenLQ\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR, TRANSLATOR AND PUBLISHER\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaquel Abend \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Caracas, Venezuela. She holds a PhD in creative writing in Spanish and art history from the University of Houston. She is the author of two novels, a short story collection and three poetry collections. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003eBloat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"\u003e is her debut publication in English. 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