{"product_id":"9781564781710","title":"Locos: A Comedy of Gestures","description":"The interconnected stories that form this novel take place in a Madrid as exotic as the Baghdad of the \u003ci\u003e1001 Arabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e and feature unforgettable characters in revolt against their young author. \"For them,\" he complains, \"reality is what fiction is to real people; they simply love it and make for it against my almost heroic opposition.\" \u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1936 and long neglected, this elegantly inventive novel anticipates works like \u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eLocos\u003c\/i\u003e, Felipe Alfau creates a mercurial dreamscape in which the characters—the eccentric, sometimes criminal, habitues of Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy—wrench free of authorial control, invade one another's stories, and even turn into one another.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43284009713725,"sku":"9781564781710","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781564781710_p0.jpg?v=1781930766","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781564781710","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}