{"product_id":"vertigo-9780811226165","title":"Vertigo","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerfectly titled, \u003cem\u003eVertigo\u003c\/em\u003e --W.G. Sebald's marvelous first novel -- is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys accross Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva, and finally to his childhood home in a small Bavarian village. He is also journeying into the past. Traveling in the footsteps of Stendhal, Casanova, and Kafka, the narrator draws the reader, line by line, into a dizzying web of history, biography, legends, literature, and -- most perilously -- memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSebald, W. G.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eW. G. Sebald\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Emigrants\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Rings of Saturn\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVertigo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAfter Nature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn the Natural History of Destruction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUnrecounted\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCampo Santo\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHulse, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMichael Hulse\u003c\/strong\u003e is an English translator, critic, and poet. Hulse has translated more than sixty books from the German.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613602451730,"sku":"9780811226165","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_221cded8-2c55-42dd-8e50-5a14add65cae.jpg?v=1732410932","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vertigo-9780811226165","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}