{"product_id":"9781662603709","title":"The Parties","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eKornberg, Julia\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAstra House\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5\/25\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eA maximalist downtown party novel about insurgency and youthful revolutionary fervor, a paranoid and political meditation about intelligence services set on the brink of the collapse of the American empire\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From a rising talent, an epic literary thriller for readers of Catherine Lacey's \u003ci\u003eBiography of X\u003c\/i\u003e and Rachel Kushner’s \u003ci\u003eCreation Lake\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Parties \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of K, a cokehead from a declassé Irish suburb in Buenos Aires with an extraordinary talent for languages. She moves to New York City as a young woman after being recruited by a mysterious university run by U.S. intelligence services that specializes in languages, controlled opposition, and counter-intelligence. As a twenty-something agent living in Chinatown, K infiltrates a new cohort of students that is organizing a hacker insurgency inspired by Latin American revolutionary guerrillas. She eventually becomes part of the conspiracy, known as The Great Translation, which aims to hack New York City’s government and make Spanish the city’s sole official language. The novel drifts from party to party in an irreverent, sensual, and Babelic sequence of violence and celebration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in an alternative present where the U.S. is escalating military tensions with Iran and Mexico, \u003ci\u003eThe Parties\u003c\/i\u003e is told in seven chapters, each split in three between a section in the present (which takes place over four days), a section in the past (over four years) and a section that reproduces intelligence memos about the group’s actions. In the past, K becomes involved with the insurgency, attempts to understand the group’s objectives and rises through the military and academic ranks as a result. She closely befriends two members of the group: Sascha, a Jewish, post-Soviet émigré from Brighton Beach who becomes an unwitting informant, and Lupe, a Mexican-Romanian woman who enamors K, confusing her and blurring her judgment. What started as a citywide prank soon turns bloody, posing questions about the ethics of guerrilla warfare and the limits of revolutionary violence. The present-day timeline takes place after the insurgency’s failure. The plot is triggered by the return of a raving, dangerous and mystical Sascha who haunts K and rehashes the dreams of a Latin American conquest of New York.","brand":"Astra House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49127197802751,"sku":"9781662603709","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781662603709","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}