{"product_id":"narcissus-goldmund","title":"Narcissus and Goldmund","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of his masterpieces . . . without doubt a great novel' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, \u003ci\u003eNarcissus and Goldmund\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the careers of two friends, one of whom shuns life in a monastery and goes on the road, tangled in the extremes of life in a world dominated by sin, plague and war, the other staying in the monastery and struggling, with equal difficulty, to lead a life of spiritual denial.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An superb feat of imagination, \u003ci\u003eNarcissus and Goldmund\u003c\/i\u003e can only be compared to such films set in medieval Europe as Bergman's \u003ci\u003eThe Seventh Seal\u003c\/i\u003e and Tarkovsky's \u003ci\u003eAndrei Rublev\u003c\/i\u003e. It is a gripping, profound reading experience - as startling, in its different way, as Hesse's \u003ci\u003eSiddhartha\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSteppenwolf\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Narcissus \u0026 Goldmund","offer_id":46273862009029,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-14-198461-2.jpg?v=1779660985","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/narcissus-goldmund","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}