{"product_id":"the-presidents-room-paperback","title":"The President's Room - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRicardo Romero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Coombe\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA taut, appealing, and often quite funny exploration of existential angst.\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a nameless suburb in an equally nameless country, every house has a room reserved for the president. No one knows when or why this came to be. It's simply how things are, and no one seems to question it except for one young boy.The room is kept clean and tidy, nobody talks about it and nobody is allowed to use it. It is for the president and no one else. But what if he doesn't come? And what if he does? As events unfold, the reader is kept in the dark about what's really going on. So much so, in fact, that we begin to wonder if even the narrator can be trusted...Ricardo Romero has been compared to Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino, and we see why in this eerie, meditative novel narrated by a shy young boy who seems to be very good at lying about the truth. Following in the footsteps of Julio Cortázar and a certain literary tradition of sinister rooms (such as Dr Jekyll's laboratory), \u003cem\u003eThe President's Room\u003c\/em\u003e is a mysterious tale based on the suspicion that a house is never just one single home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRicardo Romero\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in the province of Entre Ríos, in northern Argentina, in 1976, and now lives in Buenos Aires. Between 2003 and 2006 he ran the literary journal \u003cem\u003eOliverio\u003c\/em\u003e and between 2006 and 2010 he was one of the members of \u003cem\u003eEl Quinteto de la Muerte\u003c\/em\u003e (The Lethal Quintet), with which he published two books: \u003cem\u003e5\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLa Fiesta de la Narrativa\u003c\/em\u003e (The Fiction Party).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharlotte Coombe\u003c\/strong\u003e is a British literary translator working from Spanish, French and Catalan into English. Shortlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize 2023 and winner of the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award 2022, she has translated more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction by authors including Anna Pazos, Rosa Ribas, Marvel Moreno, Antonio Díaz Oliva, Vincent Doumeizel, Frédéric Laffont, Eduardo Berti and Abnousse Shalmani. Her translations have been published in literary journals such as \u003cem\u003eThe White Review, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Southern Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Latin American Literature Today, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, \u003c\/em\u003e and_World Literature Today_ . For Charco Press, she has translated three titles: Ricardo Romero's \u003cem\u003eThe President's Room\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), Margarita García Robayo's \u003cem\u003eFish Soup\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) (Shortlisted for the Valle Inclán Translation Prize in 2019) and \u003cem\u003eHoliday Heart\u003c\/em\u003e (2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 82\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.7 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 14, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397819252914,"sku":"9781999722722","price":14.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/3lQ79Hbtx69781999722722.webp?v=1783428800","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-presidents-room-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}