{"product_id":"2940161633113","title":"The Son of Black Thursday","description":"From Alejandro Jodorowsky--legendary director of \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, spiritual guru behind \u003ci\u003ePsychomagic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Bird Sings Best\u003c\/i\u003e--comes another autobiographical tour-de-force: a mythopoetic portrait of the artist as a young man in the sociopolitical maelstrom of 1930s Chile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhere the Bird Sings Best\u003c\/i\u003e --Alejandro Jodorowsky's visionary autobiographical novel that NPR compared to \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e and called \"a genius's surreal vision brought to life\"--we followed Jodorowsky's predecessors as they came to Chile, fleeing pogroms in Ukraine. Now, in \u003ci\u003eThe Son of Black Thursday\u003c\/i\u003e, Jodorowsky himself takes the stage alongside the unforgettable cast of his early years as they confront the horrors of indentured servitude in American-backed copper mines and the brutal oppression of a corrupt government.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlongside the young dreamer Alejandro, we follow his father, Jaime, who's obsessed with assassinating the dictator whom he ends up serving; his mother, Sara Felicidad, a spiritually attuned giantess who moonlights as a shopkeeper-turned-revolutionary and sings instead of speaks; Rubi, the mystic heiress to the copper mines who conceives a magnificent sacrifice to foment a workers' revolt; and the ghost of a wise rabbi who's been passed down as mentor from one Jodorowsky generation to the next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn its captivating blend of wonder, horror, humor, eros, and magic, \u003ci\u003eThe Son of Black Thursday\u003c\/i\u003e is another mind-expanding opus from Jodorowsky that feels both cosmically true and and urgently needed for our time.","brand":"Restless Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46537605710065,"sku":"2940161633113","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940161633113_p0.jpg?v=1765446335","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940161633113","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}