{"product_id":"acts-of-theft","title":"Acts of Theft","description":"\"An astonishing, soaring and seizing novel that means no less than to explain human culture. A detective story with a real detective and a real thief—and yet all the while it is the mind that is being plundered of its own frights.\"—Cynthia Ozick \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eActs of Theft\u003c\/i\u003e] ranges from the lost world of the Austrian aristocracy . . . to a thick-walled hacienda in the jungles of Mexico in the 1950s. . . . Cohen has resurrected the special man, the one for whom experience is a search an an intellectual problem, the man who deceives himself grandly and discovers the fact when it may be too late. . . . Cohen's writing is as beautiful and complicated as it is possible for writing to be. Rarely, these days, do novelists risk so much so successfully.\"—K. Deborah Taub,\u003ci\u003e Baltimore Sun \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the rare novels that one can begin to reread as soon as the last page is finished. By unfolding the drama of an artist obsessed by the authenticity and perfection of his work, Arthur A. Cohen recalls to us, in fact, the destiny of all human existence. \u003ci\u003eActs of Theft \u003c\/i\u003eranks with the best novels of the post-war period.\"—Mircea Eliade \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eActs of Theft\u003c\/i\u003e is a very elaborate story of cops and robbers—but it aspires to much more and its aspirations are largely fulfilled. The parallels that spring to mind are \u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLes Mesérables\u003c\/i\u003e.\"—Joseph McLellan, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54218419667288,"sku":"9780226112503","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226112503.jpg?v=1769749235","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/acts-of-theft","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}