{"product_id":"atlantic-hotel-paperback","title":"Atlantic Hotel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoão Gilberto Noll\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdam Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust who is the narrator of Jo o Gilberto Noll's dark and mysterious \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e? First he books a room where a murder has just occurred, claiming he's just arrived from the airport. But then he suddenly leaves the hotel, telling a cab driver he's an alcoholic headed for detox. After that he hops on an all-night bus headed across Brazil, where he begins to seduce a beautiful American woman. Next he says he's a soap opera actor, which is a bad idea--it makes the people he's hitchhiking with want to kill him. Then he impersonates a priest. He travels to yet another town, and this time he knocks on a very wrong door. The man who opens it has him in the crosshairs of a gun--the narrator passes out, and when he awakes something terrible is happening to him . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCrossing the wanderings of a fl neur with the menacing mystery of a hard-boiled noir, and always leaving the narrator's identity in flux, Brazilian master Jo o Gilberto Noll ponders how any of us come to possess a sense of who--or what--we are. Published right before his widely acclaimed \u003ci\u003eQuiet Creature on the Corner, \u003c\/i\u003e Noll's \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is one of his best-known and most infamous works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoão Gilberto Noll\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nearly 20 books. His work has appeared in Brazil's leading periodicals, and he has been a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, King's College London, and the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a Guggenheim Fellow. A five-time recipient of the Prêmio Jabuti, and the recipient of over 10 awards in all, he lives in Porto Alegre, Brazil. \u003cb\u003eAdam Morris\u003c\/b\u003e has a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Stanford University and is the recipient of the 2012 Susan Sontag Foundation Prize in literary translation. He is the translator of Hilda Hilst's \u003ci\u003eWith My Dog-Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e (Melville House Books, 2014) and Noll's \u003ci\u003eQuite Creature on the Corner\u003c\/i\u003e (Two Lines Press, 2015). His writing and translations have been published widely, including in \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003e and many others. He lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 6.9 x 4.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 16, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165394899079,"sku":"9781931883603","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/f14676e655032a29b2e361a77827b994.webp?v=1733313270","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/atlantic-hotel-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}