The President's Room - by Ricardo Romero (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Eerie depiction of a young boy's fascination with the mysterious room each house must keep prepared for the president.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A taut, appealing, and often quite funny exploration of existential angst."<strong> --<em>Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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...</p><p>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 Cortázar and a certain literary tradition of sinister rooms (such as Dr Jekyll's laboratory), <em>The President's Room</em> is a mysterious tale based on the suspicion that a house is never just one single home.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>One of <strong>Culture Trip</strong>'s 2018 "Most Beautiful Book Covers From Around the World." <p>"Romero advances a conversation begun by Camus, Kafka, and Calvino....A taut, appealing, and often quite funny exploration of existential angst."<strong> --Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p>"Romero's haunting fantasy, about the poetics of space and the edges of reality, underlines how impressive is the fiction currently emerging from an inspired Argentina." <strong>--The Times Literary Supplement</strong></p><p>"Romero's short novel, with its brief sections creating the haunting atmosphere depicted by a breathless young narrator, will undoubtedly reward re-readings." <strong>--Asymptote</strong></p><p>"<em>The President's Room</em> narrates bewilderment." <strong>--Jorge Consiglio</strong>, author of SOUTHERLY</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Ricardo Romero</strong> was born in the province of Entre Ríos, in northern Argentina, in 1976, and now lives in Buenos Aires. Between 2003 and 2006 he ran the literary journal <em>Oliverio</em> and between 2006 and 2010 he was one of the members of <em>El Quinteto de la Muerte</em> (The Lethal Quintet), with which he published two books: <em>5</em> and <em>La Fiesta de la Narrativa</em> (The Fiction Party).</p><p><strong>Charlotte Coombe</strong> 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 Miró, Marc de Gouvenain, as well as some non-fiction, short stories and poetry by Edgardo Nuñez Caballero, Rosa María Roffiel and Santiago Roncagliolo for <em>Palabras Errantes</em>. 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 García Robayo's <em>Fish Soup</em> (2018).</p>
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