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03031aam a22004098i 4500 001 8E5D1DCA17D411EEB984481F40ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230701010016 008 220919s2023 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022042643 020 $a 0593317580 020 $a 9780593317587 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3606.U375 $b C68 2023 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Fuentes, Javier, $e author. 245 10 $a Countries of origin : $b a novel / $c Javier Fuentes. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2306. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c [2023] 300 $a 294 pages ; $c 22 cm. 500 $a Subtitle from cover. 520 $a "In this stunning debut, Javier Fuentes chronicles a tumultuous, passionate love affair between two young men from vastly different worlds during one, extraordinary summer in Spain, in what is ultimately a meditation on identity, class, belonging and desire. It is 2007, in New York where Demetrio, 30, is a celebrated pastry chef at the French restaurant, Le Bourrelet. It will be his seventh year as their pâtissier and the chef-owner, stern, but paternal feels he should move on. When Demetrio is offered a position as Head of Pastries at a Michelin-starred restaurant, he wants nothing more than to accept it. Undocumented, he is missing one crucial thing: papers. Terrified he will be found out, he makes the difficult decision of voluntary departure to permanently return to his homeland which he has not seen since he was a small child. This will mean leaving the only family he knows, his beloved uncle Chus, who brought him up and who he still lives with. On his flight to Madrid, he sits next to the handsome, playful and sensitive Jacobo, a student at NYU going home to his aristocratic, fascist family and there is an instant, unacknowledged electricity between them. In dimly lit bars in Madrid and on pebbled beaches by the sea far outside the city, Demetrio and Jacobo's subtle but intense relationship unfolds. Demetrio is tortured by a fear of true intimacy, and anxiety about their class difference. Both are struggling with their identities and sexuality and they avoid their true feelings and deep passion until a family tragedy sets them on a collision course back into one another's lives. Powerfully sensual, and dramatic, Countries of Origin is a story which immerses you in the intense emotions and conflicts of love and loss."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Gay men $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Noncitizens $z United States $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Belonging (Social psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Desire $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Social classes $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Madrid (Spain) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 3 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230902011041.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230802012854.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230701010102.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8E5D1DCA17D411EEB984481F40ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search