{"product_id":"9780593312766","title":"Antiquities and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings, now alongside four previously uncollected stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAntiquities\u003c\/i\u003e, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage—in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie—he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluded alongside this wondrous tale, touched by unsettling irony and with the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, are four additional stories in Cynthia Ozick's brilliant, distinctive voice, weaving myth and mania, history and illusion: \u003ci\u003eThe Coast of New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bloodline of the Alkanas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSin\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Hebrew Sibyl\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007266013424,"sku":"9780593312766","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780593312766_p0.jpg?v=1763722298","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780593312766","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}