{"product_id":"ties-1","title":"Ties","description":"\u003cp\u003eDomenico Starnone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat do we leave behind when we leave someone? A home, a family, the past, a vision of the future, our worst image burned into the eyes of those we loved. We spend our lives smashing vases and gluing shards together, deluding ourselves that we're brand new. And we try not to look back too much, because the time for taking stock is a vain, ridiculous, and heartbreaking one. Domenico Starnone has written a powerful and truthful book. A three-voiced tale of the hidden forces that keep marriages alive even after love has faded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If you've forgotten, dear sir, I'll remind you: I am your wife.\" Thus begins the letter Vanda writes to her husband who has left home, leaving her gripped by a storm of impotent rage and unanswered questions. They married young in the early 1960s, yearning for independence, but then the world around them changed, and finding themselves at thirty with a family to support became a sign of backwardness rather than independence. So now he lives in Rome, in love with the gentle grace of a stranger with whom the days are always joyful, and she in Naples with her children, measuring the extent of the silence and the growing estrangement. What are we willing to sacrifice, just to avoid feeling trapped? And what do we lose when we choose to retrace our steps? Because nothing is more radical than abandonment, but nothing is more tenacious than those invisible ties that bind people to each other. And sometimes a small gesture is enough to bring back what we tried to put aside. Domenico Starnone offers us a moving and powerful story, a masterful account of an escape, a return, and all the failures we face, both those that seem insurmountable and those that remain with us for a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJune 25, 2020 by Europa Editions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Good \/ Paperback \/ Domenico Starnone","offer_id":51542528327978,"sku":"9781787702646","price":33.0,"currency_code":"ILS","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/4039\/5562\/files\/58721444.jpg?v=1778842471","url":"https:\/\/evasusedbooks.co\/products\/ties-1","provider":"Eva's Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}