{"product_id":"threshold-the-ledger","title":"Threshold \u0026 The Ledger","description":"\u003cb\u003eA riveting non-fiction book by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Published just before the centenary year of one of the German-speaking worlds most extraordinary post-war writers, Tom McCarthys short book unpacks a single poem by Ingeborg Bachmann. Latching onto two of its central terms  the eponymous threshold and ledger  McCarthy takes off on a line of flight that carries the reader through the work of Franz Kafka, David Lynch, Anne Carson, Sappho and Shakespeare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIngeborg Bachmann (19261973) may have spent her career in shadow of her lover Paul Celan; but since her untimely death her star has outshone even his. In recent years more and more Anglophone writers and readers have been switching on to her importance.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57399194222974,"sku":"NW9781912559671","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781912559671.jpg?v=1778622672","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/threshold-the-ledger","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}