{"product_id":"the-stone-door","title":"The Stone Door","description":"\u003cp\u003eAncient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story-Leonora Carrington's revolutionary second novel, long out of print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman's discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten at the end of World War II but not published until 1977 and long unavailable, The Stone Door is at once a celebration of the union of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington and her husband, the Hungarian-born photographer Chiki Weisz, and an argument for the unification of the male and the female as a means of liberating the human race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished: 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePages: 130\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 10: 1681378949\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 13: 9781681378947\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leonora Carrington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51588736549130,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781681378947.jpg?v=1754050275","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-stone-door","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}