{"product_id":"the-invisible-years-9781646054152","title":"The Invisible Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"It's impossible to get a single answer from the past. It's not a key to anything. It's just a place we go to trick ourselves.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrea and Julián haven't seen one another in twenty-one years--not since that tragic, fateful night their senior year of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A shocking phone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravel the truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from their upper-class adolescence in 1990s Bolivia and the scandal that ripped them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA writer unhappy in his career and his marriage, Julián has been novelizing the past for his next book, trying to make meaning out of the events that changed the course of their lives forever. \"I'd thought that writing about that time would free me, relieve the burden of the invisible years,\" he writes, \"but often it seems that it's done the reverse.\" Juxtaposing the naïve invincibility of adolescence with the grasping uncertainties of adulthood, \u003cem\u003eThe Invisible Years\u003c\/em\u003e deftly weaves a coming-of-age tale that leaves the reader hanging on every word, even as they know how the cards fall in the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rodrigo Hasbún\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646054152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRodrigo Hasbún\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Bolivian writer and screenwriter. He is the author of eight works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel \u003cem\u003eAffections \u003c\/em\u003e(Simon \u0026amp; Schuster), which received an English PEN Award and has been translated into twelve languages. Named one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2010, Hasbún's short stories have appeared in \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZoetrope: All-Story\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. He lives and works in Houston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLily Meyer\u003c\/strong\u003e is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eThe End of Romance \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eShort War\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a staff writer at \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso's \u003cem\u003eLittle Bird\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIce for Martians\u003c\/em\u003e, Abraham Jimenez Enoa's \u003cem\u003eThe Hidden Island\u003c\/em\u003e, and Clara Usón's \u003cem\u003eThe Shy Assassin\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Rodrigo Hasb\u0026#195;\u0026#186;n \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47699062161565,"sku":"9781646054152","price":44.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_3c152866-4cf5-43b8-9993-2724927adc30.jpg?v=1772697279","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-invisible-years-9781646054152","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}