{"product_id":"amsterdam-stories-nescio-9781590174920","title":"Amsterdam Stories","description":"No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the radiating canals of Amsterdam and the cloud-swept landscape of the Netherlands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho was Nescio? Nescio--Latin for \"I don't know\"--was the pen name of J.H.F. Gr nloh, the highly successful director of the Holland-Bombay Trading Company and a father of four--someone who knew more than enough about respectable maturity. Only in his spare time and under the cover of a pseudonym, as if commemorating a lost self, did he let himself go, producing over the course of his lifetime a handful of utterly original stories that contain some of the most luminous pages in modern literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the first English translation of Nescio's stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nescio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590174925\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590174920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/20\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/20\/2012 pg. 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/22\/2012 pg. 16","brand":"Nescio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938455781631,"sku":"9781590174920","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_92b17add-334f-41f2-ba4c-5b37285cf5eb.jpg?v=1681435792","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/amsterdam-stories-nescio-9781590174920","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}