{"product_id":"tell-her","title":"Tell Her","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel of friendship and connectivity from Chowdhury Award\u0026amp;ndash;winning writer, Christos Ikonomou, Greece\u0026amp;rsquo;s \u0026amp;ldquo;most original and perceptive chronicler\u0026amp;rdquo; (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Time\u003c\/i\u003es)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the heels of two masterful story collections translated by Karen Emmerich, \u003ci\u003eTell Her \u003c\/i\u003etrains an eye to a young courier in Athens who is writing down the world. Her days are spun with miraculous sights. Doors give way to rooms full of eye-shaped objects, or to cars parked right in the kitchen. She delivers a relic and helps glue it to a cane. She takes a pillow to a woman who asks if she can stay a while, just to know someone\u0026amp;rsquo;s there. \u003ci\u003eTrue boundaries are invisible\u003c\/i\u003e, the courier says, exchanging parcels for a piece of someone\u0026amp;rsquo;s loneliness, boredom, joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike a shock of light through the novel comes Lena, the courier\u0026amp;rsquo;s hairdresser best friend, who rides in her van each Monday. Practical where the courier is porous, Lena tapes her friend\u0026amp;rsquo;s notes to the dashboard and ticks through the week\u0026amp;rsquo;s wonders. It\u0026amp;rsquo;s with Lena that the courier sets out on her most difficult route\u0026amp;mdash;the delivery of a young woman\u0026amp;rsquo;s urn to a remote mountain village.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristos Ikonomou is an anatomist of Greek life. He levels the cosmic, the weird, the mundane, and creates an urban litany. Reading \u003ci\u003eTell Her\u003c\/i\u003e is like gazing at a distant city, awed by its vastness. We\u0026amp;rsquo;re asked to slow down and unfortify ourselves\u0026amp;mdash;to make room for the pain of others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":49731074064611,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781962770859","price":131.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781962770859.jpg?v=1789362130","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/products\/tell-her","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}