{"product_id":"seven-years-9781590513941","title":"Seven Years","description":"Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very different women--and he can't make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside him to open their architecture firm and to build a life of luxury. But when the seven-year itch sets in, their exhaustion at working long hours coupled with their failed attempts at starting a family get the best of them. Alex soon finds himself kindling an affair with his college lover, Ivona. The young Polish woman who worked in a Catholic mission is the polar opposite of Sonia: dull, passive, taciturn, and plain. Despite having little in common with Ivona, Alex is inexplicably drawn to her while despising himself for it. Torn between his highbrow marriage and his lowbrow affair, Alex is stuck within a spiraling threesome. But when Ivona becomes pregnant, life takes an unexpected turn, and Alex is puzzled more than ever by the mysteries of his heart.\u003cbr\u003e Peter Stamm, one of Switzerland's most acclaimed writers, is at his best exploring the complexities of human relationships. \u003ci\u003eSeven Years \u003c\/i\u003eis a distinct, sobering, and bold novel about the impositions of happiness in the quest for love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Stamm\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Sweet Indifference of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo the Back of Beyond, All Days Are Night, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, Unformed Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAgnes\u003c\/i\u003e, and the short-story collections \u003ci\u003eWe're Flying\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Strange Gardens and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. His award-winning books have been translated into more than forty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. He lives in Switzerland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e has translated the work of Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, Peter Stephan Jungk, and many others. He is the author of several books of poems and a book of essays, \u003ci\u003eBehind the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eTwentieth-Century German Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2012 he was awarded the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Florida and London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Other Press (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50368775749906,"sku":"9781590513941","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_033cddd6-7fbd-4ae3-bae2-112f228a7985.jpg?v=1728513863","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/seven-years-9781590513941","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}