{"product_id":"ancient-light-1","title":"Ancient Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Man Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sea\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the clarifying lyricism and the sly humor that have marked all of John Banville’s extraordinary works. And it is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave, an actor in the twilight of his career and of his life, as he plumbs the memories of his first—and perhaps only—love (he, fifteen years old, the woman more than twice his age, the mother of his best friend; the situation impossible, thrilling, devouring and finally devastating)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"readers paradise","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49131164336475,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/files\/5_79741522-8c23-419a-b04f-061a0adccbad.jpg?v=1727780790","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.pro\/products\/ancient-light-1","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}