{"product_id":"maltese-version","title":"Maltese Version","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA charged, delightfully offbeat novel of four women forging their way across time, place, and language in search of desire, power, and connection.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day they were in love and the next, a manuscript appeared in his study, written in a language she didn't speak. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeonie and Max are on separate but tangled paths. Now, she might be pregnant. And he's not answering her texts, off translating poetry from a language he seems barely to know. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAna, the poet, moves through the house her father filled with his paintings, the house where her mother struggled to survive. Ana guards her poems closely. Can she let this foreign man take her words, her art, into his tongue? Does every partnership require some form of surrender? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen Max blinks off the map, and Leonie asks Rhoda--an expert travel writer--to track him down in Malta, where a sun-baked wildness undermines Rhoda's sense of reality. What kind of caper is unfolding? And what will Rhoda do with this new version of herself? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharged and mischievous, Katy Simpson Smith's \u003ci\u003eThe Maltese Version\u003c\/i\u003e upends the stability of language, desire, and the ways we make meaning.","brand":"Katy Simpson Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49610405314787,"sku":"9780374619480","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0356\/3906\/6759\/files\/9780374619480-us.jpg?v=1787768121","url":"https:\/\/littleprofessorbookshop.com\/products\/maltese-version","provider":"Little Professor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}