{"product_id":"lies-and-sorcery-9781681376844","title":"Lies and Sorcery","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn Italian master's magnum opus about three generations of women and their unhappy marriages, now in the first-gever unabridged English translation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElsa Morante is one of the great writers of the twentieth century--Natalia Ginzburg said she was the writer of her own generation that she admired most--and yet her work remains little known in the United States. Morante's celebrated first novel, \u003ci\u003e Lies and Sorcery\u003c\/i\u003e, written during the war, when Morante, half-Jewish, was living in hiding, and published in 1948, is a sprawling 800-page novel in the grand tradition of Stendhal, Tolstoy, and Proust, spanning the lives of three generations of wildly eccentric women. Set in Sicily, the story is told by Elisa, who, after the sudden death of her parents, was adopted at a young age by a wealthy \"fallen woman.\" Over the fifteen years that she has lived with her \"protectress,\" Elisa has retreated into an imaginary world populated by relatives and ancestors. Beginning with the death of Elisa's guardian, \u003ci\u003eLies and Sorcery\u003c\/i\u003e recounts this young woman's attempt to reclaim reality by uncovering the dark details of her family's tortured and dramatic history. The reader is drawn into a tale, sweeping in scope, of family secrets, of intrigue and treachery, that is also an exploration of political and social injustice. Throughout, Morante's elegant and elaborate prose as well as her drive to get at the heart of her characters' complex motivations and relationships and their all-too self-destructive behavior hold us spellbound. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA heavily abridged English translation of \u003ci\u003eLies and Sorcery \u003c\/i\u003ecame out in the 1950s under the title of \u003ci\u003eHouse of Liars\u003c\/i\u003e. Jenny McPhee's new translation is the first complete English rendering of the book that Georg Lukács considered the greatest of modern Italian novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681376844\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Elsa Morante","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084207128757,"sku":"9781681376844","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9cd432a5-d210-4a12-9754-7fff6da06270.jpg?v=1692112621","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lies-and-sorcery-9781681376844","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}