{"product_id":"wicked-weeds-a-zombie-novel-9781942134114","title":"Wicked Weeds: A Zombie Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Pedro Cabiya\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mandel Vilar Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mandel Vilar Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Caribbean zombie, smart, gentlemanly, financially independent, and a top executive in an important pharmaceutical company, becomes obsessed with finding the formula that would reverse his condition and allow him to become \"a real person.\" In the process, three of his closest collaborators (cerebral and calculating Isadore, wide-eyed and sentimental Mathilde, and rambunctious Patricia), guide the reluctant and baffled scientist through the unpredictable intersections of love, passion, empathy, and humanity. But the playful maze of jealousy and amorous intrigue that a living being would find easy and fun to negotiate, represents an insurmountable tangle of obscure intentions and dangerous ambiguities for our \"undead\" protagonist.\u003cbr\u003eSet at the contact zones between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this is a polyphonic novel, an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained; a most original combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction addressing issues of global relevance including novel takes on ecological\/apocalyptical imbalance bound to make an impact.\u003cbr\u003eWicked Weeds is put together from a female colleague's (Isadore's) \"scrapbook,\" where she has collected her boss's scientific goals and existential agony; her own reflections about growing up a Haitian descendant in the Dominican Republic and what it really means to be human; from police reports; field journal entries; her great-aunt Sandrine's heart-rending journey from rural Haiti to urban Dominican Republic as a restavek; and a wealth of oral lore. The end result is a genre unique in its class: a precise combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction Latin American style that is, a work of speculative fiction full of humor, sociological pursuits, and in-depth explorations into religious syncretism and its survival in the modern world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePedro Cabiya is a poet, screenwriter, and award-winning author of the bestselling novels Trance and The Head, as well as the seminal short-story collections Historias tremendas (Pen Club Book of the Year) andHistorias atroces. He currently resides in the Dominican Republic, where he is Dean of Academic Affairs at the American School of Santo Domingo and senior producer at Heart of Gold Films. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJessica Ernst Powell, the translator, has published numerous translations of Latin American authors, including Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Jorge Luis Borges, César Vallejo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo, Edgardo Rivera Martínez, María Moreno, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Liliana Heer, Alan Pauls, and Anna Lidia Vega Serova\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mandel Vilar Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45413714133143,"sku":"9781942134114","price":1123.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781942134114.webp?v=1767150870","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/wicked-weeds-a-zombie-novel-9781942134114","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}