{"product_id":"kokoschkas-doll","title":"Kokoschkas Doll","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Novel Par Excellence That Is Destined To Become A Classic Of Almost Byzantine Splendour . . . At Its Best Worthy Of Comparison With Gabriel Garca Mrquez Catherine Taylor, Irish TimesAfonso Cruz Is One Of The Strongest Voices In Contemporary Portuguese Literature Antonio Saez Delgado, El Paisat The Age Of FortyTwo, Bonifaz Vogel Begins To Hear A Voice.But It DoesnT Belong To The Mice Or The Woodworm, As He First Imagines. Nor Is It The Voice Of God, As He Comes To Believe. It Belongs To Young Isaac Dresner, Who Takes Refuge In The Cellar Of VogelS Bird Shop On The Run From The Soldier Who Shot His Best Friend. Soon Vogel Comes To Rely On It For Advice: He Cannot Make A Sale Without First Bending Down To Confer With The Floorboards.Thus Begins The Story Of Two Dresden Families, Fractured And Displaced By The Devastating Bombing Of The City 1945, Their Fates Not Only Intertwined, But Bound Also To That Of A LifeSized Doll Commissioned By The Artist Oskar Kokoschka In The Image Of His Lost Lover.Based On A Curious True Story, KokoschkaS Doll Is An Imaginative And Playful Novel That Transports The Reader To Dresden, Paris, Lagos And Marrakesh, Introducing Them To An Unforgettable Cast Of Characters Along The Way.Translated From The Portuguese By Rahul Beryrahul BeryS Translations From Portuguese And Spanish Have Been Published In Granta, The White Review, Words Without Borders And The T.L.S. His First FullLength Translation, Rolling Fields By David Trueba, Was Published In 2020. From 2018 To 2019 He Was TranslatorInResidence At The British Library.With The Support Of The Creative Europe Programme Of The European Union\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MacLehose Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45903879569606,"sku":"DADAX1529402697","price":12.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/61CrfYYRy7L.jpg?v=1780378679","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/kokoschkas-doll","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}