{"product_id":"9780571303731","title":"Pebbles From My Skull","description":"\u003cp\u003e'This enthralling autobiographical fragment by Stuart Hood, a World War II British intelligence officer, tells of his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Parma and his life on the run with Italian partisans in the Resistance.' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I wanted to do two things. Firstly, give a picture of peasant life. I felt indebted to my peasants who had sheltered me, and admiration for them. The other thing was to make sense of what had happened. I discovered new facts I hadn't understood at the time. This in itself raised the question of remembrance and how one shapes memory, its truth and gaps.' Stuart Hood, 2002\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Combines the mesmeric readability of good modern fiction with a feeling of lived experience to which few novels can attain.' \u003ci\u003eListener\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A remarkable, haunting book.' Raleigh Travelyan, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124380549360,"sku":"9780571303731","price":16.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571303731_p0.jpg?v=1763718877","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571303731","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}