{"product_id":"desire-and-its-shadow-by-ana-clavel","title":"‘Desire and Its Shadow’ by Ana Clavel","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet against Mexico City, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAna Clavel’s novel follows Soledad, a young woman whose life begins to loosen from ordinary reality as desire, erotic fixation, death dissolve the border between the material world and what persists beside it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's full of ghosts, shadows, projections, doubles, showing how desire makes reality porous, turning absence into something with shape and a thump. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe novel has the weird internal logic of a dream without surrendering its psychological sharpness. Images recur — mirrors, photographs, bodies, rooms, darkness — until they begin to behave like a second narrative beneath the first. Soledad’s attempts to understand herself become inseparable from the people she has lost, wanted or imagined, producing a book about identity as something never entirely self-contained. Sensual, uncanny and structurally slippery, it sits somewhere between literary fiction, surrealism and a ghost story that refuses to behave like one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlliform Publishing, Minneapolis, 2006. First English-language edition; originally published in Mexico as \u003cem\u003eLos deseos y su sombra\u003c\/em\u003e in 1999. Paperback. Light shelf wear; internally clean and sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67577838436435,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-10-02T100119.174.png?v=1790899324","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/desire-and-its-shadow-by-ana-clavel","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}