{"product_id":"bomarzo-manuel-mujica-lainez-paperback","title":"Bomarzo -- Manuel Mujica Lainez, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eBomarzo\u003c\/i\u003e] is a novel that will make any reader happy.... [A] novel to be read aloud, with the whole family gathered around.\" --Roberto Bolaño \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA lavishly written gothic historical fantasy novel that centers around Pier Francesco Orsini, the tortured duke of Bomarzo and creator of the Italian town's famously bizarre \"Garden of the Monsters.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForty miles north of Rome, near the village of Bomarzo, Pier Francesco Orsini created a park of monstrous statuary in which the nightmares of the Renaissance stand preserved in stone. In \u003ci\u003eBomarzo, \u003c\/i\u003eManuel Mujica Lainez--one of the major Argentine novelists of the twentieth century--re-creates this dark and legendary duke as a briliant memoirist. From beyond the grave, in a city that sounds suspiciously like Mujica Lainez's own Buenos Aires, Orsini--who now knows his Freud and has read \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e--looks back at the trials and travails of his sixteenth-century life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBomarzo\u003c\/i\u003e is a historical novel in the grand manner, a first-person portrait of a hunchback bullied by his family and determined to prove a villain. It is also a commentary on such historical fictions. But above all it is an immersive story told in a sumptuous style--like one of Poe's Italian tales rewritten by Proust--as Gregory Rabassa's translation beautifully conveys.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Manuel Mujica Lainez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8\/5\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.19 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.9\" H x 5\" L x 1.5\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781681379418\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50795116200240,"sku":"9781681379418","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9781681379418.jpg?v=1774349376","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/bomarzo-manuel-mujica-lainez-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}