{"product_id":"myself-and-marco-polo","title":"Myself and Marco Polo","description":"\u003cp\u003eReturned from twenty years of travelling in China, Marco Polo now languishes in a Genoan prison cell. But his fellow inmate, Rustichello of Pisa, turns out to be an author of popular romances and persuades Polo to dictate his memoirs to him. The scribe listens, ignores, alters and embellishes. The consequent ironies, uncertainties, slippages between fact and fiction are the very stuff of the post-modern writer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn first publication in 1989, it was widely praised.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The narrative loops are as graceful as any Arabian calligraphy ... Paul Griffiths writes superbly.' Hilary Mantel, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA thoroughly modern piece of fiction which queries the nature of authorship, readership and truth itself ... Marco's doubtful account of himself rapidly falters and falls victim to ambiguity, paradox, self-reference, wilful anachronism and parody\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e.' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eRobert Irwin, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243554001240,"sku":"9780571247356","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571247356.jpg?v=1777705212","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/myself-and-marco-polo","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}