{"product_id":"9781447207665-hope-a-tragedy","title":"Hope: A Tragedy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA wonderful, twisted, trangressive, heartbreaking, true, and hugely funny book.' A. L. Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePossibly the funniest novel of the decade' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Books of the Decade 2010-2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Solomon Kugel has had enough of the past and its burdens. So, in the hope of starting afresh, he moved his family to a small rural town where nothing of import has ever happened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sadly, Kugel’s life isn’t that simple. His family soon find themselves threatened by a local arsonist and his ailing mother won't stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she didn’t actually suffer through. And when, one night, Kugel discovers a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history hiding in his attic, bad very quickly becomes worse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The humour, at times can leave you gasping . comic brilliance’ \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Singularly inventive and superbly shocking . nothing short of genius’ \u003ci\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘He will make you laugh until your heart breaks’ \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40944035201121,"sku":"9781447207665","price":8.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27131254.jpg?v=1721549694","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781447207665-hope-a-tragedy","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}