{"product_id":"mister-mister-9780593687277","title":"Mister, Mister","description":"\u003cb\u003eA blazingly propulsive novel from the prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eIn Our Mad and Furious City, \u003c\/i\u003efollowing a captured jihadist and poet-preacher as he recounts his path to international notoriety\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho is Yahya Bas? Revolutionary poet, notorious jihadist, misbegotten son, self-styled \u003ci\u003eidiot-boy\u003c\/i\u003e. When the enigmatic Yahya finds himself languishing in a detention center after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat was he doing in the desert? Why did he betray his home country? What led him to write the incendiary verses that launched him into international infamy? Mister, his interrogator, wants answers. So Yahya resolves to tell his own story, in his own words, and on his own terms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMister, Mister\u003c\/i\u003e is what follows: a coming-of-age story of radical self-invention, a quest for a long-lost father, and a discovery of another way to live in the shadow of war. Brash, biting, yet ultimately tender and bracingly imaginative, \u003ci\u003eMister, Mister\u003c\/i\u003e follows a child of the tumultuous 90s and the ravaged aughts as he becomes the unwitting voice of a generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho is Yahya Bas? An anti-hero for our modern era, in which we've just begun to survey the wreckage of the West's forever-wars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGUY GUNARATNE\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMister, Mister\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Our Mad and Furious City\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Jhalak Prize, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Guy was a Visiting Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge, and is a trustee at English PEN. They have also served on various literary prize judging panels including the Goldsmiths Prize in 2019 and the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2023.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50927544729874,"sku":"9780593687277","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0c1c18ac-35a6-4f6c-bedf-060402ac1085.jpg?v=1744276853","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mister-mister-9780593687277","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}