Description
A taut, appealing, and often quite funny exploration of existential angst." --Kirkus Reviews
In a nameless suburb in an equally nameless country, every house has a room reserved for the president. No one knows when or why this came to be. It's simply how things are, and no one seems to question it except for one young boy.
The room is kept clean and tidy, nobody talks about it and nobody is allowed to use it. It is for the president and no one else. But what if he doesn't come? And what if he does? As events unfold, the reader is kept in the dark about what's really going on. So much so, in fact, that we begin to wonder if even the narrator can be trusted...
Ricardo Romero has been compared to Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino, and we see why in this eerie, meditative novel narrated by a shy young boy who seems to be very good at lying about the truth. Following in the footsteps of Julio CortĂĄzar and a certain literary tradition of sinister rooms (such as Dr Jekyll's laboratory), The President's Room is a mysterious tale based on the suspicion that a house is never just one single home.
Author: Ricardo Romero
Publisher: Charco Press
Published: 01/14/2020
Pages: 82
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781999722722
ISBN10: 1999722728
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical
- Fiction | Dystopian
About the Author
Charlotte Coombe is a British literary translator, working from French and Spanish. Her translation of Abousse Shalmani's _Khomeini, Sade and Me _(2016) won a PEN Translates award. She has translated novels by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha MirĂł, Marc de Gouvenain, as well as some non-fiction, short stories and poetry by Edgardo Nuñez Caballero, Rosa MarĂa Roffiel and Santiago Roncagliolo for Palabras Errantes. She is also the translator of Eduardo Berti's novel _The Imagined Land _(2018). This is her third title for Charco Press, after Ricardo Romero's _The President's Room _(2017) and Margarita GarcĂa Robayo's Fish Soup (2018).