{"product_id":"the-stone-door","title":"The Stone Door","description":"\u003cb\u003eAncient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story--Leonora Carrington's revolutionary first novel, long out of print.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman's discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten at the end of World War II but not published until 1977 and long unavailable, \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a celebration of the union of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington and her husband, the Hungarian-born photographer Chiki Weisz, and an argument for the unification of the male and the female as a means of liberating the human race.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1681378949\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781681378947\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Carrington, Leonora, Carrington, Gabriel Weisz, Watz, Anna\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jul 2025)","offer_id":46079970476229,"sku":"9781681378947","price":20.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781681378947.jpg?v=1776033329","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-stone-door","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}