{"product_id":"9780593702338","title":"A Cow Gives Birth at Night","description":"By: Pajtim Statovci     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eCrossing\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Award, a piercingly honest novel about a man haunted by the violence of his past and a family ruptured by the war that ravaged their homeland, for readers of Douglas Stuart, Jenny Erpenbeck, Ocean Vuong, and Garth Greenwell.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1996: a boy raised in Finland spends the summer at his grandfather’s house in Kosovo, a time that will mark him for the rest of his life, isolating him from his family and ensconcing him in a life of the mind, the complex escape of imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYears later, having grown into adulthood and built a career as a celebrated author, he returns with his mother again to Kosovo, a country that has since been savaged by war, where fear still guides people’s everyday lives. The journey forces him to delve into a past both real and imagined, into a mire of trauma and illness. Can memories be trusted? What can be forgiven? And what demands revenge? His questions spiral through his every interaction—with his relatives, with a family in need, with a co-worker hiding his sexuality, with a seemingly dangerous spiritual leader—until he’s confronted with the ultimate question of all: what will it take for him to survive history?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStaggering in both its psychological acuity and tour-de-force prose, \u003ci\u003eA Cow Gives Birth at Night\u003c\/i\u003e shows us what it is to live a life without safety and the haunting truths of what can happen in a family after the lights have been turned off.","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"US - Hardback","offer_id":49022653858019,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780593702338","price":192.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780593702338.jpg?v=1779931016","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/products\/9780593702338","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}