{"product_id":"strangers-at-the-port-9781399608169b","title":"Strangers at the Port","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer best friend, beside her older sister, Giovanna, is a donkey. She ties ribbons around his head and thinks she will marry him when the time comes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sisters' days on the island are shaped by ritual, community, superstition and isolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a place that feels stuck in time: verdant, plentiful, peaceful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil the men arrive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd a foreign yacht anchors at the port.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd the vines begin to fail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd everything changes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of Dolores, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eStrangers at the Port\u003c\/span\u003e is an exquisite, enchanted, atmospheric novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822396608592,"sku":"9781399608169B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781399608169-l.jpg?v=1785887774","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/strangers-at-the-port-9781399608169b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}