{"product_id":"in-farthest-seas","title":"In Farthest Seas","description":"\u003cb\u003eA breathtakingly beautiful novel about the first 4 years and last 4 months of a great love, by a “lacerating, luminous” Italian author (Jhumpa Lahiri, author of \u003ci\u003eInterpreter of Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for fans of short, razor-sharp modern literary classics like Annie Ernaux and Joan Didion’s \u003ci\u003eA Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA starkly beautiful blend of novel, memoir and elegy, \u003ci\u003eIn Farthest Seas\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a complex, life-long love through brief, startling moments of epiphany. Divided into 2 sections, the book focuses on the first 4 years and final 4 months of Lalla Romano’s relationship with her husband, Innocenzo Monti.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with the couple’s meeting in Cuneo, Italy, Romano recounts their early attraction and burgeoning connection that developed on hikes in the surrounding Alps. Snapshots of conversation about music and painting reveal depths that come to represent the essence of their relationship, as the section builds to a close with their wedding and arrival at their first home together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe subtle note of elegy that sounds throughout the 1st section comes to the fore in the 2nd, a sharply poignant account of Innocenzo’s decline and death. Romano’s prose builds musical leitmotifs from the themes of love and death, braiding the ending of their relationship with its beginning, building to a quietly powerful and startlingly private symphony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn intensely moving depiction of grief, \u003ci\u003eIn Farthest Seas \u003c\/i\u003eis\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eperhaps the greatest work by a rediscovered Italian master, who’s been compared to Natalia Ginzburg and Cesare Pavese.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305204752766,"sku":"NW9781805332350","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781805332350.jpg?v=1778561684","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/in-farthest-seas","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}