{"product_id":"strangers-at-the-port-oxford-bookstore","title":"Strangers At The Port","description":"\u003cp\u003e'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original' LUCIE ELVEN\u003cbr\u003e\n'I loved Strangers at the Port. It is deliciously spare, yet complex - a story of the past as well as a vision of the future' SARA BAUME\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGiulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sisters' days on the island are shaped by ritual, community, superstition and isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a place that feels stuck in time: verdant, plentiful, peaceful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUntil the men arrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd a foreign yacht anchors at the port.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the vines begin to fail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd everything changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of Dolores, Strangers at the Port is an exquisite, enchanted, atmospheric novel about myth and memory, suspicion and dislocation, emigrants and explorers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Lauren Aimee Curtis brings her alchemical knack to a remote island setting, recounting a story through three vantage points. Giulia and Giovanna's acidic, beguiling accounts of their island's rituals and lore contrast with a third teller whose logbooks fragment into feverish autobiography. Curtis's radiant novel explores the ineffable dimensions of a place, of the past, of a person, which is precisely what I come to literature for' MIREILLE JUCHAU\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266914537651,"sku":"9781399608176","price":559.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/81Gl1DzQXvL.jpg?v=1792750736","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/strangers-at-the-port-oxford-bookstore","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}