{"product_id":"the-true-sarah-kornfeld-9786069926413","title":"The True","description":"In 2019, world-renowned Romanian theater director Alexandru Darie died, the news that shocked the creative world. Bringing Darie and Romania vividly to life, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe True\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ealso tells the story of one courageous woman's cutting through a con artist's web of lies that mirror global corruption. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe True\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a hybrid of memoir, true crime, autofiction and identifies as narrative non-fiction. Editura Integral is publishing the book in three languages (Romanian, English, and French). \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe True\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e will have a rolling launch (October 28, 2021, for the Romanian and English. November 25, 2021, for the French) with the box-set of all three books released December 9th, 2021. The box-set is titled \u003ci\u003eThe True: A Trilogy of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e. The book has three different endings, each translation an extension of the chaos of Kornfeld's experience. This version available on Amazon is the English version.\u003cbr\u003eKornfeld and Darie had been lovers in the 1990s but remained very close friends after breaking up. When he died, Kornfeld went to Romania to search for the reason for his death. It was there she met a young Romanian woman who claimed to have been Darie's girlfriend. Over a two-year period, Kornfeld wrote a book about Darie's death, signed deals with Netflix and Disney for scripts about Darie (and other projects), all to devastatingly discover she had been deeply misled by a con artist.\u003cbr\u003eReaders of Anne Carson, Dave Eggers, Claudia Rankine, Marguerite Duras, and Chris Kraus will love \u003ci\u003eThe True\u003c\/i\u003e. In a post-truth world where objective standards for truth are disappearing, \u003ci\u003eThe True\u003c\/i\u003e limns the slippage between facts, opinion, and belief. Informed by her early life within the experimental theater of downtown New York, Kornfeld draws on a wellspring of language from Molière to Patti Smith, Beckett to Maria Irene Fornes, and the intimacy of defiant theater friends, family, and ghosts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eTHE TRUE\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHE TRUE is Sarah Kornfeld's personal exploration of grief and loss. What begins as an examination of a long ago\u003cbr\u003elove affair masterfully propels into a page turning thriller. \u003cb\u003eA hauntingly beautiful tale of love, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eloss, politics and art that dares us all not to look away from our own disillusionment. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e-Courtney B. Vance, Tony and Emmy Award-winning Actor and Producer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSarah Kornfeld's THE TRUE is a gorgeously written twenty-first century postmodern literary work convincing us\u003cbr\u003ethat we only truly know where we are when on the wrong side of the looking glass. Passion, politics, lust, and theater drag us between the surreal and the real, on both sides of the Atlantic. \u003cb\u003eThis is a 'now'-age romance-political thriller.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-September Williams, author of the \u003ci\u003eChasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TRUE \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis a funny, tragic, essential cautionary tale for our post-truth era.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Jendi Reiter, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Incomplete List of My Wishes: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e; and editor of \u003ci\u003eWinning Writers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHE TRUE is a compelling, troubling, and painfully honest story about the world we live in now-a world of fake\u003cbr\u003enews and alternative facts in which we believe what we want to believe and ignore or deny those nagging voices that\u003cbr\u003etell us otherwise. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe True \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003elures the reader in with its dark poetry, and then refuses to let us go.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e-Stephen Scott-Bottoms, author of \u003ci\u003ePlaying Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBroadway Movemen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003et\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Kornfeld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 6069926412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9786069926413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Integral Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.64d","brand":"Sarah Kornfeld","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45897216360703,"sku":"9786069926413","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_10aebf5d-91fe-4316-a56e-674ca2525267.jpg?v=1721373434","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-true-sarah-kornfeld-9786069926413","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}