{"product_id":"oxigeno-hispanica","title":"Oxígeno","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"157\"\u003eThe most personal book from one of the breakout voices of Spanish literature. A powerful true story about life, love, death, and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"483\"\u003e«\u003cem data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"169\"\u003eOxígeno\u003c\/em\u003e confirms that Marta Jiménez Serrano belongs to the same literary homeland as Zadie Smith, Nora Ephron, or Joan Didion. An emotional, precise text full of class rage, turning the blink between life and death into a universe of possibilities, into life itself refusing to give up.» Alana Portero\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"485\" data-end=\"543\"\u003e«Here is a strange sentence: I knew what it is like to be dying.»\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"1053\"\u003eIn November 2020, just a few months before publishing her first novel, the author was close to dying. On an ordinary Saturday, at home, without knowing it, she and her partner were dying. A leak in the boiler released carbon monoxide, and the gas was putting them to sleep until Marta, barely able, got up to go to the bathroom. There she collapsed and hit her head. It took five years to narrate that experience in a story that combines narrative tension, anxiety, and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1055\" data-end=\"1490\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1055\" data-end=\"1064\"\u003eOxígeno\u003c\/em\u003e is \"the book I never wanted to write\": the account of the minutes when life was slipping away, the months following the accident, and the years before it, when they fell in love and began to build a life without thinking it could end at any moment. With sensitivity, humor, and clarity, the author faces death head-on to celebrate the everyday wonder of still being here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1492\" data-end=\"1580\"\u003e\"One of the most talented and intelligent writers of her generation.\" Laura Barrachina\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alfaguara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56616540602712,"sku":"LIB-OX-AL-469","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788420453996.jpg?v=1769641306","url":"https:\/\/uk.plasticbooks.com\/en\/products\/oxigeno-hispanica","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}