{"product_id":"lost-on-me","title":"Lost on Me","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA bestseller and award-winner in Veronica Raimo’s native Italy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLost on Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is an irreverent and hilariously inverted bildungsroman from one of the most celebrated young writers working today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn into a family with 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 center of their attention, our heroine Vero languishes in boredom in her childhood home. Peering through tiny windows while cramped in her family coven, Vero periodically attempts to strike out but is no match for her mother’s relentless tracking methods and masterful guilt trips. Vero’s every venture outside their Rome apartment ends in her being unceremoniously returned home. It’s no wonder that she becomes a writer – and a liar – inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpikey and clever, Vero delights in her own devious schemes. As she guides us through her failed attempts at emancipation, her discovery of sex and fixations with unwitting men, and ultimately her contentious relationship with reality, she also brings alive Rome from the 1980’s through the early 2000’s. With restless intelligence and covert tenderness, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLost on Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes on the uncertain enterprise of becoming a woman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Oversized Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: USA, 2023\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Black Cat\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 211\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: 9780802162045\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 10: 0802162045\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Veronica Raimo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49850711081226,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/71oaeQtwFHL._AC_UF350_350_QL50.jpg?v=1725011885","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/lost-on-me","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}