{"product_id":"9781681370910","title":"The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn original collection from one of the most active poets in contemporary literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi\u003c\/i\u003e is a poem-novel  about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after  capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted  island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able  to communicate with people indigenous to the island, had there been any.  Characterized by multilingual punning, humor puerile and  set-theoretical, philosophical irony and narrative handicaps, Eugene  Ostashevsky’s new large-scale project draws on sources as various as  early modern texts about pirates and animal intelligence, old-school  hip-hop, and game theory to pursue the themes of emigration,  incomprehension, untranslatability, and the otherness of others.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181567754480,"sku":"9781681370910","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681370910_p0.jpg?v=1763692546","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681370910","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}