{"product_id":"9781914982026-serpent-coiled-in-naples","title":"The Serpent Coiled in Naples","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Serpent Coiled in Naples is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new ‘destination’ in Italy. While many of its more esoteric features are on display for all to see the stories behind them remain largely hidden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Marius Kociejowski’s portrait of this baffling city, the serpent can be many things ― Vesuvius, the Camorra, the outlying Phlegrean Fields (which, geologically speaking, constitute the second most dangerous area on the planet). It is all these things that have, at one time or another, put paid to the higher aspirations of Neapolitans themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNaples is simultaneously the city of light, sometimes blindingly so, and the city of darkness, although often the stuff of cliché. The boundary that separates death from life is porous in the extreme: the dead inhabit the world of the living and vice versa. \u003cem\u003eThe Serpent Coiled in Naples\u003c\/em\u003e is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40781336215649,"sku":"9781914982026","price":13.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39939145.jpg?v=1770831180","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781914982026-serpent-coiled-in-naples","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}