{"product_id":"9780544286900","title":"The Gates of Ivory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA woman tries to uncover the mysterious fate of a friend in Cambodia in this “very smart” and suspenseful novel (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Liz Headleand is one of London’s best-known and most prominent psychiatrists. One day she arrives at work to find a mysterious package, postmarked from Cambodia. Inside, she finds various scraps of paper, a laundry bill from a Bangkok hotel, old newspaper clippings—and pieces of human finger bones.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Shocked but intrigued, she realizes the papers belong to her old friend Stephen Cox, a playwright who moved to Cambodia to work on a script about the Khmer Rouge. Convinced Stephen is trying to send her some sort of message, Liz follows the clues in the box to the jungles of Cambodia, risking her life to find her friend.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In this thrilling novel, Margaret Drabble continues the trilogy she began in \u003ci\u003eThe Radiant Way\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Natural Curiosity\u003c\/i\u003e, taking us far from the civilized, familiar streets of London, and painting an “urgent, brilliant” portrait of the tumultuous, terror-ridden landscape of Cambodia in the late twentieth century (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A tour de force.” —\u003ci\u003eCalgary Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Unputdownable . . . A sojourn within \u003ci\u003eThe Gates of Ivory\u003c\/i\u003e is not something one soon forgets.” —\u003ci\u003eEdmonton Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120348610800,"sku":"9780544286900","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544286900_p0.jpg?v=1769895882","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544286900","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}