{"product_id":"9780811224208","title":"The World Goes On","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA magnificent new collection of stories by “the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse” (Susan Sontag)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003cem\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/em\u003e, a narrator first speaks directly, then tells eleven unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahoraki himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative…” A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. \u003cem\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/em\u003e is another amazing masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. “The excitement of his writing,” Adam Thirwell proclaimed in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, “is that he has come up with this own original forms—there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.”","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129465159920,"sku":"9780811224208","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811224208_p0.jpg?v=1763741183","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811224208","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}