{"product_id":"the-world-at-my-back-biblioasis-international-translation-series","title":"The World at My Back (Biblioasis International Translation Series)","description":"\"Books written out of great emotional distress are ... rarely great literature. Thomas Melle's [The World at My Back] is great literature because he pulls it off without a single false note.\"\n—Deutschlandfunk (German National Radio)\nLonglisted for the 2024 National Translation Award in Prose • A Finalist for the German Book Prize • Translated into Eighteen Languages\n\nAddicted to culture, author Thomas Melle has built up an impressive personal library. His heart is in these books, and he loves to feel them at his back, their promise and challenge, as he writes. But in the middle of a violent dissociative episode, when they become ballast to his increasingly manic self, he disperses almost overnight what had taken decades to gather. Nor is this all he loses: descending further into an incomprehensible madness, he loses friendships and his career as a novelist and celebrated playwright, but the most savage cruelty is that he no longer either knows or understands himself.\nVulnerable and claustrophobic, shattering and profoundly moving, Thomas Melle’s The World at My Back is a book dedicated to the impossibility of reclaiming what has been lost, its lines both a prayer and reminder that, on the other side of madness, other possibilities await.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1771964510\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1771964510.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Melle, Thomas|Flotow, Luise von\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41447210975290,"sku":"DBV.1771964510.G","price":6.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1771964510-0.jpg?v=1780728732","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-world-at-my-back-biblioasis-international-translation-series","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}