{"product_id":"book-fovd","title":"Things I Don't Want to Know","description":"\u003cb\u003eA shimmering jewel of a book about writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 work riffs on these same commitments from a female writer's perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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; 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning continents (Africa and Europe) and decades (we meet the writer at seven, fifteen, and fifty), \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know\u003c\/i\u003e brings the listener into a writer's heart.","brand":"Highbridge Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50136847843632,"sku":"BDfovd","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":50136847876400,"sku":"ZEfovd","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":50136847909168,"sku":"ZMfovd","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/fovd-cover.jpg?v=1765862464","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-fovd","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}