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    The President's Room
    The President's Room
    The President's Room
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    The President's Room

    By Ricardo Romero

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    A taut, appealing, and often quite funny exploration of existential angst."—Kirkus Reviews

    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.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...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), The President’s Room is a mysterious tale based on the suspicion that a house is never just one single home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharco Press
    Release dateSep 4, 2017
    ISBN9781999722739
    The President's Room
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    Ricardo Romero

    Ricardo Romero 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 Oliverio and between 2006 and 2010 he was one of the members of El Quinteto de la Muerte (The Lethal Quintet), with which he published two books: 5 and La Fiesta de la Narrativa (The Fiction Party).

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      what an indescribable, puzzling book. still reeling from the ending and trying to piece together my thoughts and what it tried to convey.

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