{"product_id":"belios","title":"Orfhlaith Foyle: Belios [2005] paperback","description":"Narrator Noah Gilmore is researching the biography of William Belios, an ex-missionary and once-famous photographer, and spends a week in his household at Oughterard, Co. Galway. Belios is Gilmore's nemesis, his quarry, mirroring his own desires and uncertainties, as he determines to unearth family secrets: the dead wife buried in Africa and the blighted lives of three grown-up children. The eldest, Medb, an erotic illustrator, guides Gilmore down the labyrinth. Their futures demand an erasure of a troubled past as its layers are unpeeled and the perverse roots of its origins become exposed. This hauntingly well-written tale finds fulfilled desires in the unravelling of private lives; it partakes of Patrick McGrath in its gothic pyschological realism, and of Balthus in its painterly vision. Belios offers a world in which the undertow of the imagination makes the reader complicit in its workings. A startlingly mature and exciting debut.","brand":"Foyle, Orfhlaith","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47092555776339,"sku":"XV81843510673","price":1.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":46497471758675,"sku":"9781843510673","price":1.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/foyle-orfhlaith-orfhlaith-foyle-belios-2005-paperback-57937087562067.jpg?v=1745084649","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/belios","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}