{"product_id":"arturos-island-hardcover-by-elsa-morante","title":"Arturo's Island Hardcover by Elsa Morante","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eLiveright\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2019-02-19)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e384\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781631493294\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e691.74\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9.5 x 6.3 x 1.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElsa Morante’s novels are “astonishing for\nthe quality of the writing, . . . the complexity\nof the invented world, the wide-ranging view\nof the human condition” (Elena Ferrante).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce considered the greatest writer of Italy’s postwar generation—and admired by authors as varied as John Banville and Rivka Galchen—Elsa Morante is experiencing a literary renaissance, marked not least by Ann Goldstein’s translation of \u003ci\u003eArturo’s Island\u003c\/i\u003e, the novel that brought Morante international fame. Imbued with a spectral grace, as if told through an enchanted looking glass, 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 and the beaches or reads in his family’s lonely, dilapidated mansion. This quiet, meandering existence is upended when his father brings home a beautiful sixteen-year-old bride, Nunziatella.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA novel of longing and thwarted desires, filled with Morante’s “brutal directness and familial torment” (James Wood), \u003ci\u003eArturo’s Island\u003c\/i\u003e reemerges in this splendid translation to take its rightful place in the world literary canon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElsa Morante\u003c\/b\u003e (1912– 1985) was a prize-winning Italian novelist and poet. Born in Rome, Morante was married to Albert Moravia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnn Goldstein\u003c\/b\u003e, the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Works of Primo Levi\u003c\/i\u003e and the award-winning translator of Elena Ferrante’s novels, is a former editor at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45437400481953,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781631493294","price":35.1,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781631493294.jpg?v=1764175959","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/arturos-island-hardcover-by-elsa-morante","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}