{"product_id":"sphinx-2","title":"Sphinx","description":"Nominated for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize\nOne of Flavorwire's Top 50 Independent Books of 2015\nOne of Entropy Magazine's Best Fiction Books of 2015\nOne of Bookriot's 100 Must-Read Books Translated From French\n\nSphinx 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.\nA 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.\nSphinx is a landmark text in the feminist, LGBT, and experimental literary canons appearing in English for the first time.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1941920098\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.1941920098.LN\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Like New\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Ramadan, Emma|Garréta, Anne|Becker, Daniel Levin\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in like new condition. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47452817096881,"sku":"RDV.1941920098.LN","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/1941920098-0.jpg?v=1781551058","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/sphinx-2","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}