{"product_id":"the-queen-of-swords","title":"The Queen of Swords","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera's deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSifting through the writer's archives at Princeton, Barrera is repeatedly thwarted in her attempt to fully know her subject. Traditional means of research--the correspondence, photos, and books--serve only to complicate and cloud the woman and her work. Who was Elena Garro, really?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe was a writer, a founder of \"magical realism,\" a dancer. A devotee to the tarot and the I Ching. A socialite and activist on behalf of indigenous Mexicans. She was a mother and a lover who repeatedly shook off (and cheated on) her manipulative husband, Nobel-laureate Octavio Paz. And above all, she wrote with simmering anger and glittering imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Queen of Swords is a portrait of a woman that also serves as an alternative history of Mexico City; a cry-out for justice; and an homage to the unknowable. It transcends mere biography, supplanting something tidy and authoritative for a sprawling experiment in understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished: 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Two Lines Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages: 264\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 10: 1949641872\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 13: 9781949641875\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jazmina Barrera","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53379042214154,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781949641875.jpg?v=1784216886","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-queen-of-swords","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}