{"product_id":"9780307950741","title":"Dark Back of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book by Spain's greatest living writer weaves fiction and fact into a completely original and unforgettable hybrid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalled by its author a \"false novel,\" Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its \"characters\"—the real-life dons and professors and bookshop owners who have \"recognized themselves\"—fiercely maintain to be a roman à clef. With the sleepy world of Oxford set into fretful motion by a world that never \"existed,\" \u003ci\u003eDark Back of Time \u003c\/i\u003ebegins an odyssey into the nature of identity and of time. Marías weaves together autobiography, a legendary kingdom, strange ghostly literary figures, halls of mirrors, a one-eyed pilot, a curse in Havana, and a bullet lost in Mexico.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024149496048,"sku":"9780307950741","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307950741_p0.jpg?v=1763673621","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307950741","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}