{"product_id":"9781590177426","title":"The Professor and the Siren","description":"An NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Professor and the Siren,” like \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e, meditates on the past and the passage of time, and also on the relationship between erotic love and learning. Professor La Ciura is one of the world’s most distinguished Hellenists; his knowledge, however, came at the cost of a loss that has haunted him for his entire life. This Lampedusa’s final masterpiece, is accompanied here by the parable “Joy and the Law” and “The Blind Kittens,” a story originally conceived as the first chapter of a followup to \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174014501104,"sku":"9781590177426","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177426_p0.jpg?v=1763806747","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177426","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}