{"product_id":"9780061976872","title":"Day In Day Out","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a scruffy park of a West European metropolis, a man in an ill-fitting trench coat is found hanging by the feet, half-dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Abel Nema, the enigmatic yet fascinating protagonist of Terézia Mora’s internationally acclaimed novel, a linguistic phenomenon who can speak ten languages flawlessly but whose grip on reality is slowly slipping away. Since his self-imposed exile from his Balkan homeland ten years earlier, he has been making a life among fellow refugees: a group of bohemian jazz musicians, an eccentric student of ancient history, and a gang of young Gypsies. His acquaintances among the locals include a neighbor who claims to have visited heaven (and introduces Abel to hallucinogens), the sordid characters who frequent the neighborhood sex bar, and a wonderfully zany family he joins when, desperate to extend his residency permit, he enters into a fictive marriage. Yet through it all he remains strangely hollow: for all his languages he has little humanity to put into words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDay In Day Out\u003c\/em\u003e, Terézia Mora’s fierce and beautiful debut novel, is at once an evocation of the newly multicultural Europe and an exploration of a deeply disturbed individual. It is a prose labyrinth of rare poetic force that marks its author as a major new voice in contemporary fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119290007792,"sku":"9780061976872","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061976872_p0.jpg?v=1763624669","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061976872","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}