{"product_id":"letter-from-casablanca-antonio-tabucchi-9780811209861","title":"Letter from Casablanca","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlmost like a detective, the reader must try to puzzle out what has happened, what relationship X \"really\" has to Y. In \"Dolores Ibarruri Sheds Bitter Tears,\" is the mother's report of her son's happy childhood just a remembered mirage? Is life inside a Fitzgerald novel a game invented by the narrator of \"The Little Gatsby,\" or has the game indeed replaced any other reality? From the title story \"Letter from Casablanca,\" with its double and triple inversions of our expectations, to the final thoughts of \"The Backwards Game,\" where the author plays with the idea of reversing life and literature, the haunting theme of this remarkable and rewarding debut is: \"Reality is unpleasant and you prefer dreams\"--but modified in teasing counterpoint by the observation that \"sometimes reality surpasses the imagination.\" The author implies that many of the stories are \"true,\" but it is the reflecting and refining power of art and language which focuses seemingly random events into patterns of inevitability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antonio Tabucchi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811209865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811209861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.40w x 0.37d","brand":"Antonio Tabucchi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46052200644863,"sku":"9780811209861","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cee063d3-27f3-4d80-b4c0-6c3f3b5a85cc.jpg?v=1723555632","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/letter-from-casablanca-antonio-tabucchi-9780811209861","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}