{"product_id":"a-double-sorrow-9780571284559","title":"A Double Sorrow","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Chaucer composed \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Criseyde \u003c\/i\u003ehe gave us, some say, his finest poem, and with it one of the most captivating love stories ever written. \u003ci\u003eA Double Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, Lavinia Greenlaw''s new work, takes its title from the opening line of that poem in a fresh telling of this most tortured of love affairs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet against the Siege of Troy, \u003ci\u003eA Double Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Trojan hero Troilus and his beloved Criseyde, whose traitorous father has defected to the Greeks and has persuaded them to ask for his daughter in an exchange of prisoners. In an attempt to save her, Troilus suggests that Criseyde flees the besieged city with him, but she knows that she will be universally condemned and looks instead to a temporary measure: pretending to submit to the exchange, while promising Troilus that she will return to him within ten days. But once in the company of the Greeks she soon realises the impossibility o\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403097284951,"sku":"9780571284559","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571284559.jpg?v=1730482394","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-double-sorrow-9780571284559","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}