Season Of Ash

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The Soviet biologist Irina Granina has experienced the worst of Communism, struggling to free her husband from the gulag for years. Following the rise of Gorbachev, her husband finally emerges a changed man, but then Irina is forced to witness the worst of capitalism, as her daughter disappears into the new consumer society and she loses her husband again, this time to greed and a lust for power. In the West, Jennifer Moore, a wealthy American, takes a high-ranking job at the IMF, hoping to bring the free market economy to all, whilst dealing with her philandering husband.

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"Jorge Volpi's Season of Ash is the kind of novel that reminds me why I read novels in the first place, but it's also the kind that makes me wonder why I bother to write ... Volpi is a genius ... you have to buy this book, and ... he'll end up with the Nobel Prize in Literature if there is any justice in the world."Okla Elliott, Inside Higher Ed "Volpi's Season of Ash is a comprehensive attempt to dramatize the historical, scientific, and cultural forces at play in the least seventy years of the twentieth century."Alan Davis, The Hudson Review "Every generation or so a writer comes along who liberates his peers from oppressive expectations of what Latin American fiction is supposed to be. Jorge Volpi's In Search of Klingsorwoke everybody up!"Francisco Goldman

Author Bio

Jorge Volpi is the author of nine novels, including In Search of Klingsor, for which he won the Spanish Premio Biblioteca Breve prize and the French Deux-Ocans-Grizane-Cavour Prize. Volpi is one of the founders of the "Crack" groupa prestigious Mexican literary movement. Alfred MacAdam is a professor of Latin American literature at Barnard College and the translator of novels by Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jos Donoso, Juan Carlos Onetii, and Julio Cortzar, among others.