{"product_id":"beneath-the-world-a-sea","title":"Chris Beckett: Beneath the World, a Sea [2019] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand.' Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSouth America, 1990.\u003c\/b\u003e Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeneath the World, A Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force of modern fiction - a deeply searching and unsettling novel about the human subconscious, and all that lies beneath.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beckett is superb at undercutting reader assumptions with a casual line of dialogue or acute psychological observation: the book reads like Conrad's \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness \u003c\/i\u003ereimagined by JG Ballard.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beckett, Chris","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46473453338963,"sku":"9781786491558","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/beckett-chris-chris-beckett-beneath-the-world-a-sea-2019-hardback-9781786491558-1145883089.jpg?v=1741562134","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/beneath-the-world-a-sea","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}