Tale of Two Lions: A Novel

Ransom, Roberto. Translated by Jasper Reid

ISBN 10: 0393329364 / ISBN 13: 9780393329360

Published by W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 2007

About this Item

114 pp. Inscribed and signed by Roberto Ransom on title page, where he has also written "A caprice" under the printed words "A Novel". Nearly As New, apparently unread. Rear flap of jacket creased, otherwise Fine. First edition.

Seller Inventory # 012232

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tale of Two Lions: A Novel
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393329364
• ISBN 13: 9780393329360
• Binding: Boards
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

From a bold new voice in Spanish fiction―a sly and endearing novel.

“My Dear Sister, I’m writing to warn you: Cattino―the cat who is soon to arrive at your house with my wife―is really a lion,” laments Count Lorenzaccio. Cunningly disguised as a housecat, Cattino is at home among the villas of the Italian gentry and has stolen the contessa’s heart. Meanwhile, in Nairobi, the dysfunctional Jeremiah is hired to don pith helmet and riding crop as a costumed museum guard. His ward? A stuffed lion named Pasha. But with his transfixing eyes and glare of “golden, liquid savagery,” Pasha soon reveals himself as a regal animal indeed, rousing himself and escaping into the night.

Ignacio Padilla declared this mischievous little novel to be “the best Mexican literary work I have read in recent years . . . [it] heralds a pen capable of that rarest of privileges in our letters: attaining the comic and profoundly human through a perfect simplicity.”

About the Author

Born in Mexico City, Roberto Ransom is of Irish and Irish American descent. He is the author of six other books in Spanish. This is his first work to be translated into English. He lives with his wife and three children in Chihuahua, Mexico.