{"product_id":"kassandra-and-the-wolf","title":"Kassandra and the Wolf","description":"\u003cp\u003eMargarita Karapanou’s Kassandra and the Wolf was first published in 1974, and went on to become a contemporary classic in Greece, receive international acclaim, and establish its 28-year-old author as an intensely original new talent, who garnered comparisons to Proust and Schulz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSix-year-old Kassandra is given a doll: “I put her to sleep in her box, but first I cut off her legs and arms so she’d fit,” she tells us, “Later, I cut her head off too, so she wouldn’t be so heavy. Now I love her very much.” Kassandra is an unforgettable narrator, a perfect, brutal guide to childhood as we’ve never seen it—a journey that passes through the looking glass but finds the darkest corners of the real world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition brings Kassandra and the Wolf back into print—a tour de force and, as Karapanou liked to call it, a scary monster of a book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46340942561503,"sku":"9781623716974","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781623716974.jpg?v=1744075432","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/kassandra-and-the-wolf","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}