{"product_id":"mona-pola-oloixarac-9781788169899","title":"Mona","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Devil-may-care daring and biting humour . . . Think Rachel Cusk's autofiction on skunk and OxyContin and you're in the right ballpark' - The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Enjoyably mischievous and daring' - Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Ruthless, very funny' - New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMona is a Peruvian writer based on a Californian campus, open-eyed and sardonic, a connoisseur of marijuana and prescription pills. In the humanities she has discovered she is something of an anthropological curiosity - a female writer of colour treasured for the flourish of rarefied diversity that reflects so well upon her department.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she is nominated for 'the most important literary award in Europe', Mona sees a chance to escape her sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, and leaves for a small village in Sweden. Now she is stuck in the company of her competitors, who arrive from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran and Colombia. The writers do what writers do: exchange flattery, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back and go to bed together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut all the while, Mona keeps stumbling across traces of violence on her body, the origins of which she can't - or won't - remember.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pola Oloixarac","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43763240534259,"sku":"9781788169899","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781788169899.jpg?v=1683835883","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/mona-pola-oloixarac-9781788169899","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}