{"product_id":"9780811225847","title":"The Yellow Sofa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA compassionate tale of marriage, manners, and betrayal, from the Portuguese master\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e José Maria Eça de Queirós, the first great modern Portuguese novelist, wrote \u003cem\u003eThe Yellow Sofa\u003c\/em\u003e with (in his own words) “no digressions, no rhetoric,” creating a book where “everything is interesting and dramatic and quickly narrated.” The story, a terse and seamless spoof of Victorian bourgeois morals, concerns a successful businessman who returns home to find his wife “on the yellow damask sofa, leaning in abandon on the shoulder of a man.” The man is none other than his best friend and business partner. While struggling with the need to defend his honor, he fights a stronger inner desire for domestic tranquility and forgiveness. \u003cem\u003eThe Yellow Sofa firmly\u003c\/em\u003e establishes Eça de Queirós in the literary pantheon that includes Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac, and Tolstoy.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118566818032,"sku":"9780811225847","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811225847_p0.jpg?v=1763742806","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811225847","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}