{"product_id":"9781938073564","title":"The End of Love","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIn this quartet of mesmerizing stories, Marcos Giralt Torrente explores the confounding, double-edged promise of love. Each finds a man carefully churning over his past, trying to fathom how the distance between people can become suddenly unbridgeable. \u003cp\u003eTwo tourists visit a remote island off the coast of Africa and are undone by a disconcerting encounter with another couple. A young man, enchanted by his bohemian cousin and her husband, watches them fall into a state of resentful dependence over the course of decades. A chaste but all-consuming love affair between a troubled boy and a wealthy but equally troubled girl leaves a scar that never heals. The son of divorced parents tries in vain to reunite them before realizing why he is wrong to do so. In \u003ci\u003eThe End of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, Giralt Torrente forges discomfiting and gripping dramas from the small but consequential misunderstandings that shape our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039711248624,"sku":"9781938073564","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781938073564_p0.jpg?v=1763662250","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781938073564","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}