{"product_id":"lies-and-sorcery","title":"Lies and Sorcery","description":"\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.","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47949315244221,"sku":"BS-TC0-376844","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9781681376844-HD.jpg?v=1785978527","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/lies-and-sorcery","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}