{"product_id":"the-three-fates-linda-l-9780811216104","title":"The Three Fates","description":"The three fates--now three Vietnamese \"princesses\" in France--were spirited away as little children by their powerful grandmother when Saigon fell to the communists. Now the two sisters and their cousin await the arrival of their father and uncle, still marooned in his little blue house in the old country. \"Leave King Lear alone, I'd told my cousins,\" our principal narrator (an intellectual who has lost a hand) informs us: \"They had neglected him for twenty years and now they were conspiring like a pair of Cordelias to bestow one last joy on the old monarch: he hadn't asked for it.\" From a luxurious home in the French countryside, his two daughters (the elder, very pregnant and restlessly cooking and eating, kept company by her long-legged and icy younger sister) plot to drag their father halfway around the world - away from his poverty and from his only friend and the grilled eels they happily devour together - to flaunt their success. Scathingly unsentimental, The Three Fates transposes Shakespearean tragedy into a contemporary idiom and a decidedly different culture. A sharply vivacious book about \"the bitch of fate,\" \u003cem\u003eThe Three Fates\u003c\/em\u003e--like a witches' pot on the boil--brews up from displaced lives a darkly funny and agitated concatenation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linda Lê\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811216101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811216104\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\/29\/2010\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 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/26\/2010 pg. 90","brand":"Linda Lê","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926340960511,"sku":"9780811216104","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a672c519-21aa-4e52-b012-07bede3ad5ad.jpg?v=1681082532","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-three-fates-linda-l-9780811216104","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}