{"product_id":"lost-on-me-9780349017662b","title":"Lost on Me","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWinner of the Strega Off Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize, shortlisted for the Permio Strega Prize, longlisted for The International Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003eA 2023 book of the year for the \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFinancial Times,\u003c\/span\u003e the\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Irish Times\u003c\/span\u003e, the New European, Marie Claire and Largehearted Boy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA delightfully funny Italian novel about sex, love, family - and how a writer transforms her life into art\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations: she tries (and fails) to run away to Paris at the age of fifteen; she moves into an unwitting older boyfriend's house after they have been together for less than a week; and she sets up a fraudulent (and wildly successful) street clothing stall to raise funds to go to Mexico. Most of all, she falls in love - repeatedly, dramatically, and often with the most unlikely and inappropriate of candidates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she continues to plot escapades and her mother's relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery thwart her at every turn, it is no wonder that Vero becomes a writer - and a liar - inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLost on Me\u003c\/span\u003e seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity (beginning with Vero's first artistic achievement: a painting she steals from a school classmate and successfully claims as her own). Deceptively simple, its tenderness offset by moments of cool brutality,\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Lost on Me\u003c\/span\u003e is a masterwork of human observation.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Virago Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824199635024,"sku":"9780349017662B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780349017662-l.jpg?v=1785895609","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/lost-on-me-9780349017662b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}