{"product_id":"9781803512280","title":"Absence - Issa Quincy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA child is beguiled by a poem read to him by his mother. The poem follows this elusive narrator like a whisper throughout his life, echoing across the years in the stories and lives of others as they are recounted to him: an enigmatic and beloved schoolteacher who leaves behind a dark secret after his death; a woman who lays the table for a son she knows will never return home; a young man shunned by his family, who finds solace and freedom in the letters from an estranged aunt; a black-and-white photograph that tells of another family, afflicted with generations of tragedy. With fierce imagination, Issa Quincy has constructed a transcendent portrait of humanity, deftly illuminating a symphony of memories, murmurs and phantoms that add up to an ordinary human life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Issa Quincy","offers":[{"title":"192 pages \/ 07\/05\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57110621782391,"sku":"9781803512280","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781803512280","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}