{"product_id":"blood-book-jamie-lee-searle-9781399731430","title":"Blood Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE, THE SWISS BOOK PRIZE AND THE JURGEN PONTO LITERATURE PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Powerful'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Formally adventurous'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An exquisite inquiry into what it means to be an individual in a body, a family, a society, with all the attendant misery, humour, joy and enduring mystery'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKrystelle Bamford, author of Idle Grounds\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs their grandmother slides into dementia, an unnamed narrator begins to ask questions - to fill in the gaps, to resist the silence that shrouds their family. Childhood memories resurface, revealing a path into the past, winding back through generations. This matrilineal line leads toward nature, witchcraft, freedom. Could this be where they belong?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is an astounding quest for liberation - from generational trauma, class identity, the limits of language. It's a search for other forms of knowledge and traditions, other ways of becoming. Bold and expansive, Blood Book is an unforgettable reckoning with the past, and a mesmerising exploration of who we are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Everything about it is fantastic'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDie Welt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One can only marvel'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDie Zeit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An important new voice for a new form of writing'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTages-Anzeiger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in the US as Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jamie Lee Searle","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47672758108403,"sku":"9781399731430","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781399731430.jpg?v=1755636905","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/blood-book-jamie-lee-searle-9781399731430","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}