{"product_id":"bomarzo-9781681379418b","title":"Bomarzo","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lavishly written gothic historical fantasy novel that centers around Pier Francesco Orsini, the tortured duke of Bomarzo and creator of the Italian town’s famously bizarre “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eGarden of the Monsters\u003c\/span\u003e.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForty miles north of Rome, near the village of Bomarzo, Pier Francesco Orsini created a park of monstrous statuary in which the nightmares of the Renaissance stand preserved in stone. In \u003ci\u003eBomarzo, \u003c\/i\u003eManuel Mujica Lainez—one of the major Argentine novelists of the twentieth century—re-creates this dark and legendary duke as a briliant memoirist. From beyond the grave, in a city that sounds suspiciously like Mujica Lainez's own Buenos Aires, Orsini—who now knows his Freud and has read \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e—looks back at the trials and travails of his sixteenth-century life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBomarzo\u003c\/i\u003e is a historical novel in the grand manner, a first-person portrait of a hunchback bullied by his family and determined to prove a villain. It is also a commentary on such historical fictions. But above all it is an immersive story told in a sumptuous style—like one of Poe's Italian tales rewritten by Proust—as Gregory Rabassa's translation beautifully conveys.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e“[Bomarzo] is a novel that will make any reader happy.... [A] novel to be read aloud, with the whole family gathered around.” —Roberto Bolaño\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822823608400,"sku":"9781681379418B","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781681379418-l.jpg?v=1785889667","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/bomarzo-9781681379418b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}