{"product_id":"out-of-the-cage-9781646050451","title":"Out of the Cage","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Fernanda García Lao\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOut of the Cage\u003c\/i\u003e opens in 1956, in Argentina, with the freakish death of Aurora Berro, and descends into a dark philosophical exploration of humanity and mortality. In the midst of her family's celebration of a national holiday, an LP, careening through the air like a \"demented boomerang,\" severs her jugular. Her family-- an agglomeration of perversions, deformities, and obsessions--seems at first not to notice, singing on. Aurora is left behind in a voyeuristic limbo as an omniscient first-person narrator, to observe the depravity of her family and reflect on the farce of her life and human existence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fernanda García Lao has been called \"the strangest writer of Argentine literature,\" and in \u003ci\u003eOut of the Cage\u003c\/i\u003e, she lives up to that distinction. The book is saturated in strangeness, a blend of formal experimentation, eroticism, grotesque theatricality, and dark humor that evokes the absurdist fictions of Witold Gombrowicz and the style of Silvina Ocampo. The result is a macabre and fantastic vaudeville, a tragicomedy, a kind of Dadaist opus against ideas of eternal beauty and fixed identity, against absolute concepts and universality. ","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45412500963479,"sku":"9781646050451","price":1378.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781646050451.webp?v=1767918396","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/out-of-the-cage-9781646050451","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}