{"product_id":"9780547538877","title":"The Double","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality” from a Nobel Prize–winning author who pushes fiction to its very limits (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e As this novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eBlindness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll the Names\u003c\/i\u003e begins, Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noise, he finds the VCR replaying the video and watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him—or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years earlier, mustachioed and fuller in the face—appears on the screen.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Against his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man’s identity, what begins as a whimsical chase becomes a probing investigation into what makes us human. Can we be reduced to our outward appearance, rather than the sum of our experiences?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The inspiration for the film \u003ci\u003eEnemy\u003c\/i\u003e starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Denis Villeneuve, \u003ci\u003eThe Double \u003c\/i\u003eis a timeless novel from a writer John Updike described in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eas “like Faulkner, so confident of his resources and ultimate destination that he can bring any impossibility to life by hurling words at it.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “It’s tempting to think of [\u003ci\u003eThe Double\u003c\/i\u003e] as his masterpiece.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120283697392,"sku":"9780547538877","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547538877_p0.jpg?v=1769916999","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547538877","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}