{"product_id":"9781101871980","title":"You Should Have Left","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the internationally best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eMeasuring the World\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e F,\u003c\/i\u003e an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are the opening lines of the journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel: the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germany—a house that thwarts the expectations of his recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. The narrator is eager to finish a screenplay, entitled \u003ci\u003eMarriage,\u003c\/i\u003e for a sequel to the movie that launched his career, but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence, a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what, exactly, is happening around him—and in himself.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128071471344,"sku":"9781101871980","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101871980_p0.jpg?v=1763689634","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101871980","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}