{"product_id":"things-i-dont-want-to-know","title":"Things I Don't Want to Know","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo be published simultaneously with \u003ci\u003eBlack Vodka\u003c\/i\u003e, the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted writer's new collection of short stories, a shimmering jewel of a book about writing.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know\u003c\/i\u003e is Deborah Levy's witty response to George Orwell's influential essay \"Why I Write.\" Orwell identified four reasons he was driven to hammer at his typewriter-political purpose, historical impulse, sheer egoism, and aesthetic enthusiasm-and Levy's newest work riffs on these same commitments from a female writer's perspective. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs she struggles to balance womanhood, motherhood, and her writing career, Levy identifies some of the real-life experiences that have shaped her novels, including her family's emigration from South Africa in the era of apartheid; her teenage years in the UK where she played at being a writer in the company of builders and bus drivers in cheap diners; and her theater-writing days touring Poland in the midst of Eastern Europe's economic crisis, where she observed how a soldier tenderly kissed the women in his life goodbye. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning continents (Africa and Europe) and decades (we meet the author at seven, fifteen, and fifty), \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know\u003c\/i\u003e brings the reader into a writer's heart.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833452507341,"sku":"9781635572247","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_fb0d5315-17d9-4791-bafc-ad9513edda6c.jpg?v=1790873028","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/things-i-dont-want-to-know","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}