{"product_id":"9781567925456","title":"''53 Days''","description":"\u003cp\u003eCelebrate Georges Perec with \u003ci\u003e\"53 Days\"\u003c\/i\u003e, available in paperback for the first time!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the time of his death, Perec was hard at work on this absorbing, allusive, and playful literary thriller.Ê\u003ci\u003e\"53 Days\"\u003c\/i\u003e, is the ultimate detective story: the narrator, a French colonial teacher, is hot on the trail of famous crime writer Robert Serval, who has mysteriously vanished. Perec lures the reader into a labyrinth of mirror-stories—which are mirrored in turn by Perec's own riddling drafts and notes for the end ofÊ\u003ci\u003e\"53 Days\"\u003c\/i\u003e, reconstructed here by fellow Oulipians Harry Mathews and Jacques Roubaud.Ê\u003ci\u003e\"53 Days\"\u003c\/i\u003e, is a supremely satisfying, engrossing, and truly original mystery. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eÓTo read Georges Perec one must be ready to abandon oneself to a spirit of play. His books are studded with intellectual traps, allusions and secret systems, and...they are prodigiously entertaining.ӗPaul Auster\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A Verba Mundi Book from David R. Godine, Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059518324976,"sku":"9781567925456","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781567925456_p0.jpg?v=1763789522","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781567925456","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}