{"product_id":"9781786632968","title":"The Weight of Things","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Fritz, Marianne\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 5 September 2017 by Verso Books in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 144 pages, Paperback with flaps\u003cbr\u003e129 x 197 x 12 | 166g\u003cp\u003eThe first of the late Marianne Fritz's works to be translated into English. This dark gem of a novel swerves from uneasy pantomime comedy to sheer domestic horror. Fritz has a clammy handle on all that makes humans miserable: roll up for the horrors of jealousy, war, confinement, mental illness, regret and unhappy motherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). After winning acclaim with this novel-awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978-she embarked on a brilliant and ambitious literary project called 'The Fortress,'  which earned her cult status, comparisons to James Joyce, and admirers including Elfriede Jelinek and W. G. Sebald.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet in this, her first novel, we discover not an eccentric fluke of literary nature but rather a brilliant and masterful satirist, philosophically minded yet raging with anger and wit, who under the guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy and deep abiding cruelties running parallel, over time, through the society and the individual minds of a century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fritz, Marianne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50666279600312,"sku":"9781786632968","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781786632968.jpg?v=1734737826","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781786632968","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}