{"product_id":"estate-9781250448200","title":"Estate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF 2025 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. During a summer of erotic intensity and crisis, Caroline speaks, 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\u003eis 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, Inverno, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250448200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Cynthia Zarin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53239966007477,"sku":"9781250448200","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781250448200.jpg?v=1788974961","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/estate-9781250448200","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}