{"product_id":"the-maltese-version-9780374619480","title":"The Maltese Version","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne day they were in love and the next, a manuscript appeared in his study, written in a \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003elanguage she didn't speak.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeonie and Max are on separate but tangled paths. Now, she might be pregnant. And he's not answering her texts, off on some questionable assignment translating poetry from a language he seems barely to know. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Ana moves through the disintegrating island house her father filled with his paintings, the house where her mother struggled to survive, she guards her poems closely. Will Max bring her success enough to keep it? Can this foreign man rewrite her words, her art, into his tongue? Does every partnership require some form of surrender? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Max blinks off the map, Leonie asks Rhoda--expert travel writer--to track him down to Malta. Once there, Rhoda might discover more than Max's indiscretions. This Mediterranean island's sun-baked wildness undermines Rhoda's sense of reality. What kind of caper is unfolding? And what will she do with this new version of herself? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharged and mischievous, Katy Simpson Smith's \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese Version\u003c\/i\u003e upends the stability of language, desire, and the ways we make meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fsg Originals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374619480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Katy Simpson Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52733137518773,"sku":"9780374619480","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1d446e72-da2f-4366-88bf-78aef9d68d4c.jpg?v=1782269515","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-maltese-version-9780374619480","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}