{"product_id":"behind-the-door","title":"Behind The Door","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e''It was useless to think I''d ever be able to throw open the door behind which I was yet again hiding ... Not now. Not ever.''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSchool  is a place of unspoken hierarchies and rivalries for a young teenage  boy growing up in the provincial town of Ferrara. But as the everyday  classroom and playground dramas are played out, they begin to reflect  the disturbing undertones of 1930s Italy, and the narrator realizes that  being Jewish means he will always be excluded. The fourth book in  Bassani''s \u003ci\u003eRomanzo di Ferrara\u003c\/i\u003e cycle, \u003ci\u003eBehind the Door\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous portrayal of childhood friendship and the loss of innocence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new translation by Jamie McKendrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Giorgio Bassani is one of the great witnesses of this century, and one of its great artists'' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Powerful new translations . . . Bassani began as a poet, and McKendrick''s redelivery of this taut uncompromising fiction reveals resonance and generosity'' Ali Smith\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319551467902,"sku":"NW9780141192130","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141192130.jpg?v=1778728055","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/behind-the-door","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}