{"product_id":"the-country-road-9780811220057","title":"The Country Road","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough a famous Swiss author, Regina Ullmann has never appeared before in English: her oracular, strange, singular voice astonishes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A pure poetic talent: everything is full of mystery.\" -- Hermann Hesse\u003cbr\u003e\"To read your book for me is such a multiplicity of joys that I can only gradually cope with it.\" -- Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Regina Ullmann\u003cbr\u003e\"Regina Ullmann has a sense of authenticity and a touch of genius.\" -- Robert Musil\u003cbr\u003e\"Her voice is something holy.\" -- Thomas Mann\u003cbr\u003e\"A triumphant translation.\" -- Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\"Its language feels timeless—rich and cavernous and haunted.\" -- Kevin Nguyen - Grantland\u003cbr\u003e\"Ullmann delicately balances each of her characters’ emotions on a pinpoint, presenting both the beauty and fragility of every momentary feeling.\" -- Jan Anspach - Words Without Borders\u003cbr\u003e\"It’s as if Ullmann takes biblical wisdom literature, strips it of all moral judgment, and then spins it with rotating moments of natural bliss and existential fear.\" -- Jonathan Sturgeon - Flavorwire\u003cbr\u003e\"Ullmann is a one-off, an original, a really deeply peculiar writer.\" -- Michael Hofmann - NYRB","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527838179671,"sku":"9780811220057","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780811220057.jpg?v=1731869425","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-country-road-9780811220057","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}