{"product_id":"crossing-the-river","title":"Caryl Phillips: Crossing the River [2006] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaryl Phillips' ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West later that century, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Epic and frequently astonishing'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Its resonance continues to deepen'\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phillips, Caryl","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48090548371795,"sku":"XG80099498261","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/phillips-caryl-crossing-the-river-xg80099498261-55726545142099.jpg?v=1727553734","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/crossing-the-river","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}