{"product_id":"9780863563799","title":"This Other Salt","description":"In this long-awaited second collection from Aamer Hussein, he continues and deepens his oblique, subversive portrayal of the preoccupations of our time: betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging and the writer's role. In \"This Other Salt\" a writer, torn between two loves, looks for his lost words in the gap between memory, mourning and desire; in \"The Lost Cantos of the Silken Tiger\" a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning their romance into a biblical legend; and in \"The Blue Direction\" a teenage boy's life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a school operetta. Combining satire, legend, poetry, history and memoir, the linked stories of \u003ci\u003eThis Other Salt\u003c\/i\u003e reveal an author of uncommon talent at the height of his craft.  ","brand":"Saqi Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012450304240,"sku":"9780863563799","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780863563799_p0.jpg?v=1763831472","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780863563799","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}