{"product_id":"from-madrid-to-heaven-9789778732931","title":"From Madrid to Heaven","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these stories Madrid is the apex of a triangle stretching to Lisbon and Tangier. Characters meet the unexpected in a borderland between Europe and Africa, from the fall of dictators to a surge in trans-Mediterranean migration. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Arab businessman heading into exile in Madrid finds himself eerily like a native \u003cem\u003eMadrile?o \u003c\/em\u003ebent on fleeing Spanish justice by disappearing into Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn art dealer sent to Tangier to value the collection of an equivocal World War II ?migr? - Jewish or Nazi - finds its missing canvases in an unexpected place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe negligence of a son, reluctantly joining his parents in Madrid after aimless world travels, fully returns a feared father who has long outlived himself to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young woman thought to be a loser escapes a predatory Mother Superior to achieve strange triumph with an imprisoned Basque terrorist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title story an expatriate, too self-absorbed in Madrid to have contacted his London-bound brother during his lifetime, somehow finally sees him. He raises a glass of wine to toast: \"From Madrid to Heaven - \u003cem\u003eDe Madrid al Cielo\u003c\/em\u003e\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese stories take characters and readers alike to surprising edges of experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Diwan Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911107055890,"sku":"9789778732931","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1522dbe5-626e-4632-9ba0-a1d1565f9dbc.jpg?v=1738729301","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/from-madrid-to-heaven-9789778732931","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}