{"product_id":"9780857423726","title":"The Spirits of the Earth","description":"\u003cbr\u003eSwiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. \u003ci\u003eThe Spirits of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is the first English translation of Colomb’s work and its arrival will introduce new readers to an iconic novel.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spirits of the Earth \u003c\/i\u003eis at heart a family drama, set at the Fraidaigue château, along the shores of Lake Geneva, and in the Maison d’en Haut country mansion, located in the hills above the lake. In these luxe locales, readers encounter upper-class characters with faltering incomes, parvenues, and even ghosts. Throughout, Colomb builds a psychologically penetrating and bold story in which the living and the dead intermingle and in which time itself is a mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027321405680,"sku":"9780857423726","price":22.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780857423726_p0.jpg?v=1769859592","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780857423726","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}