{"product_id":"your-steps-on-the-stairs-a-novel","title":"Your Steps on the Stairs: A Novel","description":"A Best Book of the Year by NPR and Times Literary Supplement\nA Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post\nA Best Thriller of the Month by the New York Times\nA Best Thriller of the Year by Publishers Weekly\nLonglisted for the PEN Translation Prize\n\nA couple’s new life in Lisbon unravels in this heady and unsettling psychological thriller from one of Spain’s most celebrated writers.\n\nA man travels to Lisbon ahead of his wife to prepare their new home, while she stays in New York to oversee a research project on the neuroscience of memory and fear. Leaving behind a phase of their relationship indelibly marked by 9\/11, the man revels in the Portuguese capital’s temperate weather and the neighborhood’s calmness, meticulously planning the details of their future.\n\nYet beneath the peace and quiet of this routine, he feels a growing unease he can’t explain. Is it the similarity between the two cities, and the two apartments? A mysterious threat waiting in the wings?\n\nA brilliant, deceptively simple novel of psychological suspense, Your Steps on the Stairs explores how our emotions and memories shape our perception of reality. With his subtle, masterful style, Antonio Muñoz Molina lays bare the fragility of the stories we so carefully craft about ourselves.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1635424348\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1635424348.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Muñoz Molina, Antonio|Bauer, Curtis\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43051789287485,"sku":"BVV.1635424348.A","price":8.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1635424348-0.jpg?v=1773956190","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/your-steps-on-the-stairs-a-novel","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}