{"product_id":"island-of-the-mad-9781640090088","title":"Island of the Mad","description":"Following on the heels of her exciting and widely acclaimed \u003ci\u003eA Monster's Notes\u003c\/i\u003e, and with Sheck's characteristic brilliance of language, \u003ci\u003eIsland of the Mad\u003c\/i\u003e follows the solitary, hunchbacked Ambrose A., as he sets out on a mysterious journey to Venice in search of a lost notebook he knows almost nothing about.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEventually he arrives in San Servolo, the Island of the Mad, in the Venetian Lagoon, only a few minutes' boat–ride from Venice. At the island's old, abandoned hospital which has been turned into a conference center, he discovers a mess of papers in a drawer, and among them the correspondence and notes of two of the island's former inhabitants—a woman with a rare genetic illness which causes the afflicted to gradually become unable to sleep until, increasingly hallucinatory and feverish, they essentially die of sleeplessness; and her friend, a man who experiences epileptic seizures. As the sleepless woman's eyesight fails, she wants only one thing—that her friend read to her from Dostoevsky's great novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e, a book she loves but can no longer read herself. As Ambrose follows their strange tale, everything he has ever known or thought is called into question.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62273361412483,"sku":"9781640090088","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781640090088.jpg?v=1785526409","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/island-of-the-mad-9781640090088","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}