{"product_id":"the-murderer-9781946022295","title":"The Murderer","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe portrait of a dangerous and unknowable lost soul, by \"a chronicler nonpareil of 20th-century Guyanese life.\" (Margaret Busby, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eQuiet, reserved, painfully shy, Galton Flood arrives in the Guyanese township of Linden haunted by the death of his domineering mother. There he meets Gemma Burrowes, a vibrant young woman eager to escape the confines of her father's boarding house. They marry and make a home in the anonymous sprawl of Georgetown, Galton's native city, where Gemma starts to realize that there is something very wrong with this match, and with Galton himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn its first publication in 1978, \u003ci\u003eThe Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e was greeted as a landmark in Caribbean literature, acclaimed both for its subtle portrayal of a disturbed anti-hero and for revealing with \"uncanny precision . . . the discrepancy between the personal power of a woman within the family and her lack of influence outside it\" (Homi Bhabha, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeath, Roy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Born in what was then British Guiana, \u003cb\u003eRoy Heath\u003c\/b\u003e (1926-2008) grew up in a working-class neighborhood of Georgetown and in the coastal village of Agricola. In 1950, he moved to London to pursue graduate studies in modern languages; for many years he worked as a schoolteacher of French and German. He published his first novel, \u003ci\u003eA Man Come Home\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), at the age of forty-eight; his second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e, received the Guardian Fiction Prize. He would publish eight more books, all of them set in Guyana, a country to which he often returned.","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50520933990674,"sku":"9781946022295","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_37782b89-632b-4a7a-b1b2-e4f092eda0af.jpg?v=1731094434","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-murderer-9781946022295","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}