{"product_id":"9780099583776-broken-ghost","title":"Broken Ghost","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**WINNER OF THE 2020 WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A magnificently gifted writer' Irvine Welsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA Welsh community witnesses a strange vision: the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge. Is it a collective hallucination, a meteorological phenomenon, or something supernatural? The individuals living in these mountains are already battling their own demons - of drink, drugs, domestic violence, depression - how could an apparition unite these crushed people or their fragmented country?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a novel that gives voices to the marginalised, the dispossessed, the forgotten. An examination of modern humanity's desperate need to live meaningfully and vividly in a mediated world - where individual autonomy is lost and the collective heart is atomised and exploited. Disturbing and unforgettable, darkly funny and deeply moving, it is written in a charged language that is vernacular, lyrical and hieratic all at once. \u003ci\u003eBroken Ghost \u003c\/i\u003eis a howl of anguish and a summoning of gods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Combines myth, drug culture and iconoclastic political vision in a wild music that's also a call to arms' \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Griffiths has forged a chimerical piece of radical fiction, a Blake-like reverie on the possibility (or not) of spiritual regeneration in our time.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is a book powered along with ferocious momentum by the raw nervous energy of its characters, whose demotic, alternating narratives seem to muscle bodily off the page.' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32712533082209,"sku":"9780099583776","price":7.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32289831.jpg?v=1737126147","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099583776-broken-ghost","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}