{"product_id":"9781399608176","title":"Strangers at the Port : Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original'\u003cb\u003e LUCIE ELVEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I loved\u003ci\u003e Strangers at the Port\u003c\/i\u003e. It is deliciously spare, yet complex - a story of the past as well as a vision of the future'\u003cb\u003e SARA BAUME\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer best friend, beside her older sister, Giovanna, is a donkey. She ties ribbons around his head and thinks she will marry him when the time comes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sisters' days on the island are shaped by ritual, community, superstition and isolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a place that feels stuck in time: verdant, plentiful, peaceful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil the men arrive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd a foreign yacht anchors at the port.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd the vines begin to fail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd everything changes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eDolores\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStrangers at the Port\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite, enchanted, atmospheric novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Lauren Aimee Curtis brings her alchemical knack to a remote island setting, recounting a story through three vantage points. Giulia and Giovanna's acidic, beguiling accounts of their island's rituals and lore contrast with a third teller whose logbooks fragment into feverish autobiography. Curtis's radiant novel explores the ineffable dimensions of a place, of the past, of a person, which is precisely what I come to literature for' MIREILLE JUCHAU\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45461121106141,"sku":"9781399608176","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781399608176.jpg?v=1720024163","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781399608176","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}