{"product_id":"the-golden-age-michal-ajvaz-9781564785787","title":"The Golden Age","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Golden Age\u003c\/i\u003e is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny island in the Atlantic. The islanders seem at first to do nothing but sit and observe the world, and indeed draw no distinction between reality and representation, so that a mirror image seems as substantial to them as a person (and vice versa); but the center of their culture is revealed to be \"The Book,\" a handwritten, collective novel filled with feuding royal families, murderous sorcerers, and narrow escapes. Anyone is free to write in \"The Book,\" adding their own stories, crossing out others, or even appending \"footnotes\" in the form of little paper pouches full of extra text-but of course there are pouches within pouches, so that the story is impossible to read \"in order,\" and soon begins to overwhelm the narrator's orderly treatise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michal Ajvaz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1564785785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781564785787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.50w x 1.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Best Translated Book Award - Finalist","brand":"Michal Ajvaz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980100796671,"sku":"9781564785787","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_127ac952-c73c-4085-883b-9db96b452a30.jpg?v=1683248396","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-golden-age-michal-ajvaz-9781564785787","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}