{"product_id":"9781915590596","title":"Antiquity","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Johansson, Hanna \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 18\/07\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 224 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781915590596,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson — a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntiquity follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties who becomes enamoured of a chic older artist, Helena, after interviewing her for a magazine. Helena invites the narrator to join her in the Greek city of Ermoupoli where she summers with her teenage daughter Olga. At first an object of jealousy, Olga morphs into an object of desire as the pull of Helena is transposed onto her daughter and the prospect of becoming someone’s first, if perverse, lover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith echoes of Death in Venice, Call Me by Your Name, The Lover, and Lolita, but wholly original and contemporary, Antiquity probes the depths of memory, power, and the narratives that arrange our experience of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54878277763445,"sku":"9781915590596","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781915590596_77e599c5-163e-45fa-9f65-5acac5fa88d7.jpg?v=1759663845","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781915590596","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}