{"product_id":"estate-1","title":"Estate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated poet and author of the critically acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e comes a mesmerizing new novel, \u003ci\u003eEstate.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaroline, separated from her husband, finds herself drawn to Lorenzo, who has not one but two other lovers. In these propulsive pages, Caroline speaks during a summer of erotic intensity and crisis, recording the stories of seduction, deception, and make-believe that she and Lorenzo tell each other--but how true are any of them? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSweeping across time and space, \u003ci\u003eEstate\u003c\/i\u003e is a tightly compressed tour de force in which Caroline sees revelations and responsibilities collide. From New Guinea to word games, Italian cinema to communication theory, Cynthia Zarin's refractive, mirrorlike novel charts the exigencies of desire, bringing to mind the work of Annie Ernaux and Clarice Lispector and illustrating how a person can disappear in a hall of stories and reflections. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMany of your stories are about this, how you acquired the last thing you wanted\u003c\/i\u003e, says Caroline to Lorenzo. But what does Caroline want? How elastic is love? Of Zarin's previous novel, \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e, Sigrid Nunez wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \"To see the chaos of suffering shaped into something beautiful is one of the main reasons we turn to art.\" In \u003ci\u003eEstate\u003c\/i\u003e, a summer counterpart to wintry \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e, Caroline reassembles her field of vision from a trove of gleaming shards. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShockingly intense and psychologically penetrating, Cynthia Zarin is a writer of passionate insight, and a formidable new presence in American fiction.","brand":"Cynthia Zarin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47282330435820,"sku":"9780374610166","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47282330468588,"sku":"9781250448200","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780374610166.jpg?v=1770334252","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/estate-1","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}