{"product_id":"9781526659828","title":"Hard by a Great Forest - Leo Vardiashvili","description":"\u003cp\u003e*LONGLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2025** AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 *`A spellbinding achievement' FINANCIAL TIMES`Poignant and often painfully comic' OBSERVER`I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it' KHALED HOSSEINISaba's father is missing, and the trail leads back to Tbilisi, Georgia. Arriving in a city he has not seen for more than two decades, where escaped zoo animals prowl the streets and the voices of those left behind beckon him along a path of cryptic clues, Saba embarks on a quest that will lead him into the heart of a lost homeland. This is a rare, searching tale of home, memory and sacrifice - of one family's mission to rescue one another, and put the past to rest. `Hugely impressive' NEW EUROPEAN`Novels like this might help light the way' GUARDIAN'At once a puzzle hunt and an affecting meditation on exile' ECONOMIST\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leo Vardiashvili","offers":[{"title":"352 pages \/ 30\/01\/2024 \/ Fiction: special features","offer_id":57107634848119,"sku":"9781526659828","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781526659828.jpg?v=1780937461","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781526659828","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}