{"product_id":"the-world-goes-on-9781788160124b","title":"The World Goes On","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eShortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/span\u003e, a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell ('for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me'). As László Krasznahorkai himself explains: 'Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative...'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/span\u003e is another masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. 'The excitement of his writing,' Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in the \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e, 'is that he has come up with his own original forms-there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.'","brand":"Profile Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822471614544,"sku":"9781788160124B","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781788160124-l.jpg?v=1785888096","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/the-world-goes-on-9781788160124b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}