{"product_id":"casanovas-chinese-restaurant","title":"Casanova's Chinese Restaurant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist: they’re available only as e-books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCasanova’s Chinese Restaurant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1960), the fifth book, finds Nick marrying Isobel Tolland and launching happily into family life—including his new role as brother-in-law to Isobel’s many idiosyncratic siblings. But even as Nick’s life is settling down, those of his friends are full of drama and heartache: his best friend, Hugh Moreland, is risking his marriage on a hopeless affair, while Charles Stringham has nearly destroyed himself with drink. Full of Powell’s typically sharp observations about life and love, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCasanova’s Chinese Restaurant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers all the rewards and frustrations, pleasures and regrets of one’s thirties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician.\"—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's.\"—Elizabeth Janeway, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTimes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience.\"—Naomi Bliven, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.”—Kingsley Amis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46205998432468,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/71e2CrnObrL._SL1500.jpg?v=1744197150","url":"https:\/\/bluebooks.ae\/products\/casanovas-chinese-restaurant","provider":"Blue Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}