{"product_id":"damnificados","title":"Damnificados","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDamnificados\u003c\/em\u003e is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, the Tower of David. In this fictional version, six hundred \"damnificados\"--vagabonds and misfits--take over an abandoned urban tower and set up a community complete with schools, stores, beauty salons, bakeries, and a rag-tag defensive militia. Their always heroic (and often hilarious) struggle for survival and dignity pits them against corrupt police, the brutal military, and the tyrannical \"owners.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaking place in an unnamed country at an unspecified time, the novel has elements of magical realism: avenging wolves, biblical floods, massacres involving multilingual ghosts, arrow showers falling to the tune of Beethoven's Ninth, and a trash truck acting as a Trojan horse. The ghosts and miracles woven into the narrative are part of a richly imagined world in which the laws of nature are constantly stretched and the past is always present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947317625063,"sku":"9781629631172","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_49bb44d2-33f7-4d14-a212-2d86d2eb5256.jpg?v=1775486732","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/damnificados","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}