{"product_id":"9780099430896","title":"If On a Winter's Night a Traveller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItalo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book's central character.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased on a witty analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, \u003cem\u003eIf On a Winter's Night a Traveller\u003c\/em\u003e is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book, \u003cem\u003eIf On a Winter's Night a Traveller\u003c\/em\u003e by Italo Calvino, of course, are constantly and comically frustrated. In between chasing missing chapters of the book, the hapless readers tangle with an international conspiracy, a rogue translator, an elusive novelist, a disintegrating publishing house, and several oppressive governments. The result is a literary labyrinth of storylines that interrupt one another - an Arabian Nights of the postmodern age.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated by William Weaver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pansing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49030926172406,"sku":"9780099430896","price":69.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0767\/8050\/3286\/files\/91YGarF4l7L._SL1500.jpg?v=1773549944","url":"https:\/\/shop.litbooks.com.my\/products\/9780099430896","provider":"Lit Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}