{"product_id":"9781590177891","title":"Journey by Moonlight","description":"An NYRB Classics Original\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe trouble begins in Venice, the first  stop on Erzsi and Mihály’s honeymoon tour of Italy. Here Erzsi  discovers that her new husband prefers wandering back alleys on his own  to her company. The trouble picks up in Ravenna, where a hostile man  zooms up on a motorcycle as the couple are sitting at an outdoor café.  It’s János, someone Mihály hasn’t seen for years, and he wants Mihály to  come with him in search of Ervin, their childhood friend. The trouble  comes to a head when Mihály misses the train he and Erzsi are due to  take to Rome. Off he goes across Italy, wandering from city to city,  haunted and accosted by a strange array of figures from the troubled  youth that he thought he had left behind: There are the charismatic  siblings, Éva and Tamás, whose bizarre amateur theatricals linked sex  and death forever in his mind; Ervin, a Jew turned Catholic monk who was  his rival for Éva’s love; and again, that ruffian on the motorcycle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntal Szerb’s dreamlike adventure, like Bulgakov’s \u003ci\u003eThe Master and Margarita\u003c\/i\u003e,  is an intoxicating, utterly individual mix of magic, madness, eros, and  menace. In the words of the critic Nicholas Lezard, “No one who has  read it has failed to love it.”","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172789403888,"sku":"9781590177891","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590177891_p0.jpg?v=1763803015","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590177891","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}