{"product_id":"serge-9781632064011","title":"Serge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed novelist and playwright Yasmina Reza masterfully portrays the messiness of family, where affection and resentment intertwine and the weight of a shared past looms large.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen adult siblings Serge, Jean, and Nana embark on an unexpected road trip, they take along one daughter and more than enough tangled family history. As Jean watches his older brother fall apart, he tries to hold the center, and what might have been a solemn pilgrimage into the past quickly devolves into a tragicomedy of mutual fixations, private grievances, and the limits of kept company. As reflective as it is incitement, \u003cem\u003eSerge\u003c\/em\u003e is a testament to Reza's gift for finding light in the abyss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReza, Yasmina:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePlaywright and novelist \u003cstrong\u003eYasmina Reza\u003c\/strong\u003e's work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Her play \u003ci\u003eArt\u003c\/i\u003e was the first non-English language play to win a Tony Award; \u003ci\u003eConversations After a Burial, The Unexpected Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLife X 3\u003c\/i\u003e have all been award-winning critical and commercial successes internationally; and \u003ci\u003eGod of Carnage\u003c\/i\u003e, which also won a Tony Award, was adapted for film by Roman Polanski. A new play, \u003ci\u003eBella Figura\u003c\/i\u003e, premiered in Germany in May 2015. Her fiction includes \u003ci\u003eHammerklavier, Desolation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAdam Haberberg\u003c\/i\u003e. Reza lives in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZuckerman, Jeffrey:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Zuckerman\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of French, including books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers, the queer writers Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert, and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza. A graduate of Yale University, he has been a finalist for the TA First Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and he was awarded the French Voices Grand Prize for his translation of \u003ci\u003ePina\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Restless Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51572449640722,"sku":"9781632064011","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4e8d0f77-a4b4-4ab3-9259-bd5125cc33e4.jpg?v=1755862214","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/serge-9781632064011","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}