{"product_id":"9780857054302-belladonna","title":"Belladonna","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA timely parable on the perils of growing old and infirm in an unforgiving modern world - by the author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eTrieste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBelladonna\u003c\/i\u003e is brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable .  One of the truly outstanding novels of recent years\" EILEEN BATTERSBY, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e** Winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2018**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e** Shortlisted for the inaugural E.B.R.D. Prize for Literature **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e** Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize **\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e excoriating work of fiction that references the twentieth century's darkest hours\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndreas Ban is a writer and a psychologist, an intellectual proper, but his world has been falling apart for years. When he retires with a miserable pension and finds out that he is ill, he gains a new perspective on the debris of his life and the lives of his friends. In defying illness and old age, Andreas Ban is cynical and powerful, and in his unravelling of his own past and the lives of others, he uncompromisingly lays bare a gamut of taboos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Andreas Ban stands for a true hero of our times; a castaway intellectual of a society which subdues every critical thought under the guise of political correctness. \u003ci\u003eBelladonna\u003c\/i\u003e addresses some of the twentieth century's worst human atrocities in a powerful fusion of fiction and reality, the hallmark of one of Europe's finest contemporary writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth\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":56450641232246,"sku":"9780857054302","price":12.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27019140.jpg?v=1760453679","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780857054302-belladonna","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}