{"product_id":"arturos-island","title":"Arturo's Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eElsa Morante's novels were once considered the greatest of Italy's postwar generation. Here, Ann Goldstein's \"deft translation\" (Madeline Schwartz, New York Review of Books) of Arturo's Island heralds a \"second life\" for the beloved author, finally garnering Morante \"the new readers she deserves\" (Lily Tuck, Wall Street Journal). Imbued with a spectral grace, the novel follows the adolescent Arturo through his days on the isolated Neapolitan island of Procida, where-his mother long deceased, his father often absent, and a dog as his sole companion-he roams the countryside or reads in his family's lonely, dilapidated mansion. This quiet, meandering boyhood existence is existentially upended when his father brings home a beautiful sixteen- year- old bride, Nunziatella. A novel of thwarted desires, written with \"the power of malediction\" (Dwight Garner, New York Times), Arturo's Island reemerges to take its rightful place in the world literary canon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48124077998269,"sku":"BS-TC0-496622","price":31.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781631496622-HD.jpg?v=1787097581","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/arturos-island","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}