{"product_id":"antiquities-and-other-stories-9780593312766","title":"Antiquities and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings, now alongside four previously uncollected stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAntiquities\u003c\/i\u003e, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded alongside this wondrous tale, touched by unsettling irony and with the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, are four additional stories in Cynthia Ozick's brilliant, distinctive voice, weaving myth and mania, history and illusion: \u003ci\u003eThe Coast of New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bloodline of the Alkanas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSin\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Hebrew Sibyl\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCYNTHIA OZICK, a recipient of both the PEN\/Nabokov Award and the PEN\/Malamud Award for fiction and a National Book Critics Circle winner for criticism, is the author of \u003ci\u003eTrust, The Messiah of Stockholm, The Shawl, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Puttermesser Papers. \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50383114174738,"sku":"9780593312766","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_51a007de-b7ee-49cf-8ad1-3e12d21edffc.jpg?v=1728778431","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/antiquities-and-other-stories-9780593312766","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}