{"product_id":"house-of-day-house-of-night-9798217168965","title":"House of Day, House of Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the mode of \u003ci\u003eFlights\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize-winning, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the narrator of \u003ci\u003eHouse of Day, House of Night\u003c\/i\u003e arrives with her husband in a village in remote southwest Poland, she knows no one. Before long, though, she discovers that everyone--and everything--there has a story. With the help of her neighbor, the eccentric Marta, she pieces together the fragments of the living and the dead. There's the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There's the man whose death - with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech - was an international incident. And there are the German soldiers, not long departed, who still haunt the region. Shard by shard, from the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these stories capture not only a history but a cosmology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnother brilliant \"constellation novel\" in the mode of her Booker-winning \u003ci\u003eFlights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHouse of Day, House of Night\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves narrative, musings, history, and mythology, reminding us that the story of any place, no matter how humble, is fascinating and boundless, and awaits any of us with the imagination to seek it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlga Tokarczuk\u003c\/b\u003e has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the International Booker Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children's book; her work has been translated into more than fifty languages.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Large Print Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749488820498,"sku":"9798217168965","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_42349113-a2f3-4e05-acfc-4494ab575c4e.jpg?v=1764087880","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/house-of-day-house-of-night-9798217168965","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}