{"product_id":"nymph-sofia-montrone-9781923058873","title":"Nymph","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tale of ephemeral love set over two transformative summers at a hotel in the northern Italian countryside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTen-year-old Leo spends her mornings tidying the rooms of her nonna's time-worn Italian hotel, quietly accumulating the junk and treasures left behind by guests-a pearl earring, a lock of hair. Her nights are suffused with her father's liquor-spun tales of his childhood, mingled with stories of Greek heroes of old.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYears later, over another hot, endless Italian summer, the hotel is one of the only things in Leo's life that has remained constant. An accident has knocked her family sideways; her brother Max is distant, and Nonna has grown frail. But then she meets Dolores, a young American woman who sets something alight in Leo that she didn't know existed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHeat-soaked, sensual and steeped in an exquisite longing, Nymph traverses the extraordinary pains, soaring pleasures and many metamorphoses it takes to finally grow up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE- \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Nymph is soft and sweet and hot and pungent and textured and strange and lovely...a perfect summer read...I'll be thinking about it for a very long time.' LitHub\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Nuanced, wise...this sensual, yearning novel of personal tragedy and first love in the Northern Italian countryside will transport readers of all ages.' Shelf Awareness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Polished, economic, swift, smart, spiritual...a transcendent work of intelligence.' Heidi Julavits, author of Directions to Myself\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Montrone's lyrical prose is masterfully precise. Nymph is a dazzling debut that captures the dizzying intensity of first love.' Adam Wilson, author of Sensation Machines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This shimmering gem of a novel invites you to re-experience that gut-punch feeling of youthful summer romance...Nymph is a truly impressive debut.' Anelise Chen, author of Clam Down\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sofia Montrone","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49220726554867,"sku":"9781923058873","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781923058873.jpg?v=1780948482","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/nymph-sofia-montrone-9781923058873","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}