{"product_id":"damon-galgut-arctic-summer-2015-paperback","title":"Damon Galgut: Arctic Summer [2015] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE PROMISE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Barry Ronge Fiction Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUniversity of Johannesburg English Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated for the 2014 Folio Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1912, the \u003ci\u003eSS Birmingham\u003c\/i\u003e approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt will be another twelve years, and a second time spent in India, before \u003ci\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/i\u003e, E. M. Forster's great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of himself as a man, and of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature, bringing these great insights to his remarkable novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once a fictional exploration of the life and times of one of Britain's finest novelists - his struggle to find a way of living and being - and a stunningly vivid evocation of the mysterious alchemy of the creative process, \u003ci\u003eArctic Summer\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary masterpiece, by one of the finest writers of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Galgut, Damon","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49625049334099,"sku":"9781782391593","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/galgut-damon-damon-galgut-arctic-summer-2015-paperback-9781782391593-59541595488595.jpg?v=1729228816","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/damon-galgut-arctic-summer-2015-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}