{"product_id":"little-labors","title":"Little Labors","description":"Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book-a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen's new book-contains a list of 'Things That Make One Nervous.' And wouldn't the blessed event top almost anyone's list Little Labors is a slanted, enchanted literary miscellany. Varying in length from just a sentence or paragraph to a several-page story or essay, Galchen's puzzle pieces assemble into a shining, unpredictable, mordant picture of the ordinary-extraordinary nature of babies and literature. Anecdotal or analytic, each part opens up an odd and tender world of wonder. The 47 Ronin; the black magic of maternal love; babies morphing from pumas to chickens; the quasi-repellent concept of 'women writers'; origami-ophilia in Oklahoma as a gateway drug to a lifelong obsession with Japan; discussions of favorite passages from the Heian masterpieces Genji and The Pillow Book; the frightening prevalence of orange as today's new chic color for baby gifts; Frankenstein as a sort of baby; babies gold mines; babies as tiny Godzillas ...Little Labors-atomized and exploratory, conceptually byzantine and freshly forthright-delights.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54840111235410,"sku":"9780811225588","price":16.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/little-labors","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}