{"product_id":"if-you-kept-a-record-of-sins-9781939810960","title":"If You Kept a Record of Sins","description":"\u003cb\u003eAndrea Bajani's beautiful, original, and deeply moving (Michael Cunningham) novel, which Jhumpa Lahiri asserts accumulates with the quiet urgency of a snowstorm.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she's building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his mother leaves, recalls the incisive fragments of their life - when they would playfully wrestle each other, watch the sunrise, or test out his mother's newest scientific creation. Now a young man, Lorenzo travels to Romania for his mother's funeral and reflects on the strangeness of today's Europe, which masks itself as a beacon of Western civilization while iniquity and exploitation run rampant. With elliptical, piercing prose, Bajani tells a story of abandonment and initiation, of sentimental education and shattered illusions, of unconditional love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Archipelago Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939810960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200","brand":"Andrea Bajani","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38607622308021,"sku":"9781939810960","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1934af54-e53c-4a30-9457-404456d032a7.jpg?v=1614089688","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/if-you-kept-a-record-of-sins-9781939810960","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}