{"product_id":"casanova-in-bolzano-9780375712968","title":"Casanova in Bolzano","description":"Another rediscovered masterpiece from the Hungarian novelist whose \u003cb\u003eEmbers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebecame an international bestseller--a sensuous, suspenseful, aphoristic novel about the world's most notorious seducer and the encounter that changes him forever. In 1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from a Venetian prison and resurfaces in the Italian village of Bolzano. Here he receives an unwelcome visitor: the aging but still fearsome Duke of Parma, who years before had defeated Casanova in a duel over a ravishing girl named Francesca and spared his life on condition that he never see her again. Now the duke has taken Francesca as his wife--and intercepted a love letter from her to his old rival. Rather than kill Casanova on the spot, he makes him a startling offer, one that is logical, perverse, and irresistible. Turning an historical episode into a dazzling fictional exploration of the clasp of desire and death, \u003cb\u003eCasanova in Bolzano\u003c\/b\u003e is further proof that S ndor M rai is one of the most distinctive voices of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSándor Márai was born in Kassa, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1900, and died in San Diego, California, in 1989. He rose to fame as one of the leading literary novelists in Hungary in the 1930s. Profoundly antifascist, he survived the war, but persecution by the Communists drove him from the country in 1948, first to Italy, then to the United States. His novel \u003ci\u003eEmbers\u003c\/i\u003e was published for the first time in English in 2001. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSándor Márai's \u003ci\u003eEmbers\u003c\/i\u003e is available in Vintage paperback. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514087575826,"sku":"9780375712968","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4918244b-d3ae-4be1-bb80-d6d80c07f712.jpg?v=1730972832","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/casanova-in-bolzano-9780375712968","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}