{"product_id":"9781035076833-ghosts","title":"Ghosts","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Banville's \u003ci\u003eGhosts\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace, now part of the Picador Collection.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhosts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of the isle’s reclusive savant; but the big isolated house which is home to Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic assistant, Licht, is also home to another, unnamed presence .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnto this seemingly haunted island, where a strange singing hangs in the air, John Banville drops a scrumptious cast of characters – including a murderer – and weaves a tale where the details are clear but the conclusion polymorphous – shifting appearances, transformations and thwarted assumptions make this world of uneasy calm utterly enthralling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘As fascinating, complex, stimulating and energetic as any work of art . A work which proves Banville as a master, the artist in total control of his craft’ – \u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘John Banville’s funniest book . another triumph by our most outrageously inventive and daring novelist’ – \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Makes this astonishingly attractive novelist one of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction’ – \u003ci\u003eThe London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\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":55279846949238,"sku":"9781035076833","price":8.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40132688_d46113fb-3f34-4e67-93f3-d022041bd1d8.jpg?v=1772094698","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781035076833-ghosts","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}