{"product_id":"sphinx","title":"Sphinx","description":"Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCondition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781941920091\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (US)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2015\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNominated for the 2016 PEN Translation PrizeOne of Flavorwire's Top 50 Independent Books of 2015One of Entropy Magazine's Best Fiction Books of 2015One of Bookriot's 100 Must-Read Books Translated From French\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, \"I,\" and their lover, A***, written without using any gender markers to refer to the main characters, Sphinx is a remarkable linguistic feat and paragon of experimental literature that has never been accomplished before or since in the strictly-gendered French language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSphinx is a landmark text in the feminist, LGBT, and experimental literary canons appearing in English for the first time.","brand":"Smartfox Books","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41951965773957,"sku":"PR233961","price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/fun9781941920091_SXUPBWOO8FMJ.jpg?v=1790960700","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.com.au\/products\/sphinx","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}