{"product_id":"if-only","title":"If Only","description":"\u003cb\u003eNYPL's Best Books of 2024 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter. January and minus 14°C, white, frosty mist around the parked car, around the spruces, the mailbox on its post, but higher up the sky is blue, clear, the sun has come back. She has written in her diary that she is waiting for the heartbreak that will turn her into her true self. She has an impending sense of doom or possibly her own death.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo opens Vigids Hjorth’s ground-breaking novel from 2001, which melds the yearning, doomed potency of Annie Ernaux’s \u003ci\u003eA Simple Passion\u003c\/i\u003e with the scale and force of \u003ci\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/i\u003e. It asks, can passion be mistaken for love? And proceeds to document the destruction a decade defined by such a misconstruction can yield on a life.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039496777866,"sku":null,"price":1172.52,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0326\/6727\/1306\/files\/WebSitesiKitapKapaklariSablonu_92_038ba6cc-9aa3-4595-b7e7-1c8f55584a7d.png?v=1776415520","url":"https:\/\/minoa.com\/en\/products\/if-only","provider":"Minoa Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}