{"product_id":"estate-hardcover","title":"Estate - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCynthia Zarin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated poet and author of the critically acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e comes a mesmerizing new novel, \u003ci\u003eEstate.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaroline, separated from her husband, finds herself drawn to Lorenzo, who has not one but two other lovers. In these propulsive pages, Caroline herself speaks during a summer of erotic intensity and crisis, recording the stories of seduction, deception, and make-believe she and Lorenzo tell each other--but how true are any of them? Not a sequel to Cynthia Zarin's \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e but an astounding mirror image in which revelations and responsibilities collide, \u003ci\u003eEstate\u003c\/i\u003e is a tight, compressed tour de force that sweeps across time and space, from New Guinea to word games, Italian cinema to communication theory, bringing to mind Annie Ernaux and Elena Ferrante, charting the exigencies of desire--and asking how can a person disappear in a hall of stories and reflections? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMany of your stories are about this, how you acquired the last thing you wanted\u003c\/i\u003e, says Caroline to Lorenzo. But what does Caroline want? How elastic is love? Of \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e, Sigrid Nunez wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \"To see the chaos of suffering shaped into something beautiful is one of the main reasons we turn to art.\" In \u003ci\u003eEstate\u003c\/i\u003e, a summer counterpart to wintry \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e, Caroline reassembles her field of vision from a trove of gleaming shards.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCynthia Zarin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e; six books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eOrbit \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNext Day: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e; five books for children; and two essay collections, \u003ci\u003eTwo Cities\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Enlarged Heart: A Personal History\u003c\/i\u003e. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry, and a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Poetry. A longtime contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, she teaches at Yale University and lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.49 x 5.66 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43489085227143,"sku":"9780374610166","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7nAMxwJzBZ9780374610166.webp?v=1763437577","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/estate-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}