{"product_id":"lies-and-sorcery","title":"Lies and Sorcery","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLies and Sorcery\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eElsa Morante\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781681376844\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNYRB Classics\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e800\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women, now in the first-ever unabridged English translation. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 2024 Society of Authors John Florio Prize for for the best translation from Italian and the 2024 American Literary Translator Association's Italian Prose in Translation Prize\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElsa Morante is one of the titans of twentieth-century literature--Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she most admired--and yet her work remains little known in the United States. Written during World War II, Morante's celebrated first novel, \u003ci\u003e Lies and Sorcery\u003c\/i\u003e, is in the grand tradition of Stendhal, Tolstoy, and Proust, spanning the lives of three generations of wildly eccentric women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story is set in Sicily and told by Elisa, orphaned young and raised by a \"fallen woman.\" For years Elisa has lived in an imaginary world of her own; now, however, her guardian has died, and the young woman feels that she must abandon her fantasy life to confront the truth of her family's tortured and dramatic history. Elisa is a seductive, if less than reliable, spinner of stories, and the reader is drawn into a tale of secrets, intrigue, and treachery, which, as it proceeds, is increasingly revealed to be an exploration of a legacy of political and social injustice. Throughout, Morante's elegant writing--and her drive to get at the heart of her characters' complex relationships and all-too self-destructive behavior--holds us spellbound.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Lies and Sorcery | Elsa Morante | Paperback | 9781681376844 | New | Fiction 1577352","offer_id":50597664588034,"sku":"1577352","price":43.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81bPUA70C0L.jpg?v=1791137304","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/lies-and-sorcery","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}