{"product_id":"2940169837476","title":"Alentejo Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003eMonica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTeresa is a beautiful young girl from the village who is supposed to marry a suitable man from the same community but who wants to see the world. Vasco is a café owner who is losing business to the new internet café down the road. The unseemly dysfunctional but strangely riveting Pottses are a family of ex-patriots, trying to cobble a life together, at odds with one another until they run into trouble on the outside. We also meet several English tourists: a young couple engaged to be married and confronting each other's weaknesses and idiosyncrasies for the first time and an older woman imagining a new life and fantasizing about never returning home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100550447344,"sku":"2940169837476","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169837476_p0.jpg?v=1769901062","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169837476","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}