{"product_id":"thirst-9780593472088","title":"Thirst","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e It is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, and a vampire must escape. She arrives to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for the second time in her life, watches as villages transform into a cosmopolitan city. She adapts, intermingles with humans, and attempts to be discreet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In present-day Buenos Aires, a woman finds herself at an impasse as she grapples with her mother's terminal illness and her own relationship to motherhood. When she first encounters the vampire in a cemetery, something ignites inside the two women—and they cross a threshold from which there’s no turning back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With echoes of Mary Shelley’s \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThirst \u003c\/i\u003eplays with the boundaries of the Gothic genre while exploring the limits of female agency, all-consuming desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Channeling Carmen Maria Machado and Anne Rice, Yuszczuk reimagines the vampire novel, with a distinctly Latin American feminist Gothic twist.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62249495396739,"sku":"9780593472088","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780593472088.jpg?v=1785416262","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/thirst-9780593472088","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}