{"product_id":"stone-door","title":"Stone Door","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Leonora Carrington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by New York Review of Books, 2025-07-22\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Ancient 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.\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;The Stone Door\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; 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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Written at the end of World War II but not published until 1977 and long unavailable, \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;The Stone Door\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47085077954729,"sku":"PHBK-9781681378947","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/17578533482786.jpg?v=1779805943","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/stone-door","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}