{"product_id":"9780349017662-lost-on-me","title":"Lost on Me","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2024\u003cbr\u003eA delightfully funny, bestselling, prize-winning Italian novel about sex, love, family - and how a writer transforms her life into art\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe prize-winning 100,000-copy Italian bestseller  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2023 book of the year for the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIrish Times, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e New European, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Largehearted Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Deliciously enjoyable'\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine Heiny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I adored it\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eNaoise Dolan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wild, funny and disturbing' \u003c\/b\u003eRoddy Doyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Thrillingly original' \u003c\/b\u003eMonica Ali\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It would be simply impossible for a book this good to go unnoticed' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Issue \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e_________________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA delightfully funny Italian novel about sex, love, family - and how a writer transforms her life into art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention. As she becomes an adult, Vero's need to strike out on her own leads her into bizarre and comical situations: she tries (and fails) to run away to Paris at the age of fifteen; she moves into an unwitting older boyfriend's house after they have been together for less than a week; and she sets up a fraudulent (and wildly successful) street clothing stall to raise funds to go to Mexico. Most of all, she falls in love - repeatedly, dramatically, and often with the most unlikely and inappropriate of candidates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs she continues to plot escapades and her mother's relentless tracking methods and guilt-tripping mastery thwart her at every turn, it is no wonder that Vero becomes a writer - and a liar - inventing stories in a bid for her own sanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrated in a voice as wryly ironic as it is warm and affectionate, \u003ci\u003eLost on Me\u003c\/i\u003e seductively explores the slippery relationship between deceitfulness and creativity (beginning with Vero's first artistic achievement: a painting she steals from a school classmate and successfully claims as her own). Deceptively simple, its tenderness offset by moments of cool brutality, \u003ci\u003eLost on Me\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterwork of human observation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40877512753249,"sku":"9780349017662","price":14.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_14537909_jpg.jpg?v=1705534168","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780349017662-lost-on-me","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}