The President and the Frog
A Novel
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Carolina De Robertis
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Carolina De Robertis
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PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee
An incandescent novel - political, mystical, timely, and heartening - about the power of memory, and the pursuit of justice, from the acclaimed author of Cantoras.
“A joy to read. Playful and profound, unearthly yet deeply rooted, this sublime and gripping novel is above all about hope: that within the world's messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing.” (Madeline Miller, New York Times best-selling author of Circe)
At his modest home on the edge of town, the former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla who was jailed for inciting revolution before becoming the face of justice, human rights, and selflessness for his nation. Now, as he talks to the journalist, he wonders if he should reveal the strange secret of his imprisonment: While held in brutal solitary confinement, he survived, in part, by discussing revolution, the quest for dignity, and what it means to love a country, with the only creature who ever spoke back - a loud-mouth frog.
As engrossing as it is innovative, vivid, moving, and full of wit and humor, The President and the Frog explores the resilience of the human spirit and what is possible when danger looms. Ferrying us between a grim jail cell and the president's lush gardens, the tale reaches beyond all borders and invites us to reimagine what it means to lead, to dare, and to dream.
©2021 Carolina De Robertis (P)2021 Random House AudioCe que les critiques en disent
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, 2022
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, 2022
One of BookRiot’s 24 Must-Read New Books of Spring and Summer 2021
One of Book Slut’s Most Anticipated Books for the Rest of 2021
One of The Millions’ Most Anticipated Books for the Second-Half of 2021
One of Jacobin Magazine’s 2021 Beach Reads
One of Chicago Review of Book’s Must-Read Books of August
One of Alta’s 14 New Books for August
One of Ms. Magazine's August 2021 Reads for the Rest of Us
“Exceptional...[The President and the Frog] is a hopeful, entertaining paean to language, justice and perseverance.” (Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle)
“The President and the Frog is a story about stories, and how to remember the seeds we can be even in the bleakest times. There is such lucid tenderness in the book, but it is also wild, and funny. As we move through time, we return again and again to love, to growth, but through struggle, and madness, and yes, magnanimous conversations with a frog. This book and Carolina De Robertis’s vision are a beautiful, shattered dance.” (Tommy Orange, author of There There)
“A moving, deeply felt novel, especially in the president’s excruciating (and sometimes humorous) encounters with his strangely healing frog. De Robertis daringly invites us to imagine a man’s Promethean struggle to wrest control of his broken psyche under the most dire circumstances possible.” (Michael Greenberg, The New York Times Book Review)