{"title":"Fernando A. Flores","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFernando A. Flores\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling voice in \u003cem\u003egeneral fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, weaving narratives that explore human connections with depth and nuance. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eBrother Brontë\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eValleyesque\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers into richly imagined worlds where cultural identity and personal journeys intersect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a deft blend of evocative storytelling and thoughtful characterisation, Flores crafts stories that resonate beyond their settings. Readers can expect emotionally charged narratives that balance introspection with vivid, engaging landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"brother-bronte-by-fernando-a-flores-9781250419927","title":"Brother Brontë","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of its mothers to work as indentured labourers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick's pockets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Proserpina and Neftalí. One of Three Rivers' last literate citizens, Neftalí hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, whose last novel, \u003cem\u003eBrother Brontë\u003c\/em\u003e, is finally in Neftalí's possession. But after a series of increasingly violent atrocities committed by Crick's forces, Neftalí and Proserpina, with the help of a wounded Bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel tías, rise up to reclaim their city—and in the process, unlock Rivas's connection to Three Rivers itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn adventure that only the acclaimed Fernando A. Flores could dream up, \u003cem\u003eBrother Brontë\u003c\/em\u003e is a mordant, gonzo romp through a ruined world that, in its dysfunction, tyranny, and disparity, feels uncannily like our own. With his most ambitious book yet, Flores once again bends what fiction can do, in the process crafting a moving and unforgettable story of perseverance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47550268178668,"sku":"9781250419927","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250419927-brother-bront.jpg?v=1776800698"},{"product_id":"brother-bronte-by-fernando-a-flores-9780374604165","title":"Brother Brontë","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. 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But after a series of increasingly violent atrocities committed by Crick's forces, Neftalí and Prosperina, with the help of a wounded Bengal tigress, three scheming triplets, and an underground network of rebel \u003cem\u003etías\u003c\/em\u003e, rise up to reclaim their city — and in the process, unlock Rivas's connection to Three Rivers itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn adventure that only the acclaimed Fernando A. Flores could dream up, \u003cem\u003eBrother Brontë\u003c\/em\u003e is a mordant, gonzo romp through a ruined world that, in its dysfunction, tyranny, and disparity, nonetheless feels uncannily like our own. With his most ambitious book yet, Flores once again bends what fiction can do, in the process crafting a moving and unforgettable story of perseverance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240858530028,"sku":"9780374604165","price":64.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/470b6101b7008b7d7f9769d82482b476.jpg?v=1788149007"},{"product_id":"valleyesque-by-fernando-a-flores-9780374604134","title":"Valleyesque","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo one captures the border—its history and imagination, its danger, contradiction, and redemption—like Fernando A. Flores, whose stories reimagine and reinterpret the region's existence with peerless style. In his immersive, uncanny borderland, things are never what they seem: a world where the sun is both rising and setting, and where conniving possums efficiently take over an entire town and rewrite its history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003cem\u003eValleyesque\u003c\/em\u003e dance between the fantastical and the hyperreal with dexterous, often hilarious flair. A dying Frédéric Chopin stumbles through Ciudad Juárez in the aftermath of his mother's death, attempting to recover his beloved piano that was seized at the border, while a muralist is taken on a psychedelic journey by an airbrushed Emiliano Zapata T-shirt. A woman is engulfed by a used-clothing warehouse with a life of its own, and a grieving mother breathlessly chronicles the demise of a town decimated by violence. In two separate stories, queso dip and musical rhythms are bottled up and sold for mass consumption. And in the final tale, Flores pieces together the adventures of a young Lee Harvey Oswald as he starts a music career in Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSwinging between satire and surrealism, grief and joy, \u003cem\u003eValleyesque\u003c\/em\u003e is a boundary- and border-pushing collection from a one-of-a-kind stylist and voice. With the visceral imagination that made his debut novel, \u003cem\u003eTears of the Trufflepig\u003c\/em\u003e, a cult classic, Flores brings his vision of the border to life—and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244804485356,"sku":"9780374604134","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7065775366e1331597103c8e1c7186cf.jpg?v=1788147865"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/fernando-a-flores.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}