{"product_id":"sour-cherry-by-natalia-theodoridou","title":"Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs75B323B{11pt;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Calibri;} .cs1844654{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs95B300B{11pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Calibri;} .cs13DCAC4{text-align:left;margin:12pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs6639F7B{11pt;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-style:italic;Calibri;} .cs3388614{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;line-height:1.15;text-indent:0pt} .cs4639DCB{11pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:italic;Calibri;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs13DCAC4\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"_dx_frag_StartFragment\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003e'An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment' KAREN JOY FOWLER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003e'[A] reminder about what it means to be alive . . . with razor-sharp prose and diction so precise' MORGAN TALTY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003e'Read it and be changed' B. PLADEK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eSomething terrible has happened. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eIn a mysterious apartment filled with ghosts, our unnamed narrator attempts to explain this to her child - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs4639DCB\"\u003ehow do I talk about this? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eshe wonders. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eThe truth must become something beautiful. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs4639DCB\"\u003eWe must begin with a fairy tale. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eAnd so she begins to construct a beautiful fairy tale for her child - one that begins with a strange baby boy whose nails grow too fast and whose skin smells of soil. As he grows from a boy into a man, a plague seems to follow him everywhere. Tragedy strikes in cycles - and wife after wife, death after death, plague after plague, every woman he touches becomes a ghost. These ghosts call out desperately to our narrator as she tries to explain, in the very real world, exactly what has happened to her. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003eAnd they all agree on one thing, an inescapable truth about this man, this powerful lord who has loved them and led them each to ruin: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs1844654\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003eIf you leave, you die. But if you die, you stay.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3388614\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003eA debut novel as emotionally poignant as it is fiercely smart, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs6639F7B\"\u003eSour Cherry \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003eis an arresting debut examining toxic masculinity through its chorus of women \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003e-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs75B323B\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edeconstructing the idea of what makes someone a monster.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs95B300B\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Kangaroo Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44017534632024,"sku":"9781035416158","price":33.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/8343\/1000\/files\/9781035416158_1.jpg?v=1776901252","url":"https:\/\/redkangaroobooks.au\/products\/sour-cherry-by-natalia-theodoridou","provider":"Red Kangaroo Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}