{"product_id":"9780393240498","title":"Carnival: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA stirring new masterpiece from the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award–winning author of \u003cem\u003eCockroach\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDe Niro’s Game\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003cem\u003eCarnival\u003c\/em\u003e, internationally acclaimed author Rawi Hage takes us into the world of Fly, a taxi driver in a crime-ridden apocalyptic metropolis. \u003cp\u003eRaised in the circus, the son of a golden-haired trapeze artist and a flying-carpet man, Fly sees everything, taking in all of the city’s carnivalesque beauty and ugliness as he roves through its dizzying streets in his taxi. Fly is a reader, too, and when he’s not in his taxi he is at home in the equally dizzying labyrinth of books that fills his tiny apartment. His best friend is Otto, a political activist who’s in and out of jails and asylums, mourning his dead wife and lost foster son. On one otherwise tawdry night Fly meets Mary, a book-loving passenger with a domineering husband. So begins a romance that is, for Fly, a brief glimmer of light amid the shadows and grit of the Carnival city.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlong with Otto and Mary, Fly introduces us to madmen and revolutionaries, magicians and prostitutes as he picks them up and drops them off, traveling through a nightmarish town that is—we can’t help but notice—a parable for our own debauched, unjust world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWildly imaginative and darkly ironic, \u003cem\u003eCarnival\u003c\/em\u003e is a magnificent achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104268894448,"sku":"9780393240498","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393240498_p0.jpg?v=1769916431","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393240498","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}