{"product_id":"the-gilda-stories-von-jewelle-gomez","title":"The Gilda Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBefore \u003ci\u003eBuffy\u003c\/i\u003e, before \u003ci\u003eTwilight\u003c\/i\u003e, before Octavia Butler’s \u003ci\u003eFledgling\u003c\/i\u003e, there was \u003ci\u003eThe Gilda Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, now as a new Penguin Classics hardcover, a Penguin Speculative Fiction Special\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic Hardcover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1991, \u003ci\u003eThe Gilda Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking speculative fiction vampire novel that begins in 1850s Louisiana, where a young Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who “shares the blood” by two women there, Gilda spends the next two hundred years searching for a place to call home. Taking only blood as sustenance, killing as a last resort, Gilda moves through the centuries up to the dystopian future of 2050. Gomez’s classic, with a Black lesbian heroine,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehas endured as an auspiciously prescient book in its explorations of Blackness, radical ecology, redefinitions of family, and the erotic potential of the vampire story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780143138921\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9780143138921","offer_id":58092267995461,"sku":"9780143138921","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/da63d848-d128-4f69-8070-723d09dd8199.jpg?v=1780027346","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/the-gilda-stories-von-jewelle-gomez","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}