{"product_id":"love-novel","title":"Love Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the HKW Internationaler Literaturpreis - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award - One of \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e Most Anticipated Titles of 2024 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- One of \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e' Twenty Books You Can Read in a Weekend \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- One of the \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e's Anticipated Forthcoming Titles\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLove in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us to the frontlines of a war waged between kitchen and bedroom. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe, an unemployed Dante scholar, trying to change the world and write a novel. She, once a passable actress with a vaguely rewarding theater job, now a stay-at-home mom. He is delirious with dreams of grandeur; she is on edge, a detonator bomb with a dirty laundry trigger. The rent is late, the neighbor caviling, the government astoundingly callous: with violence looming on all sides, husband and wife circle one another in a dizzying dance towards the abyss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntense and astutely ironic, devastating and darkly comic, Ivana Sajko's \u003ci\u003eLove Novel\u003c\/i\u003e takes a scalpel to the heart of modern married life.\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Ivana Sajko, Mima Simic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44442036273388,"sku":"9781771965989","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781771965989.jpg?v=1709487133","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/love-novel","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}