{"product_id":"9781101969878","title":"Notwithstanding","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the world around it marches forward, the bucolic English village of Notwithstanding remains unchanged. It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics—a retired colonel who has eschewed clothes, a spiritualist living with the ghost of her husband, and a dog named Archibald Scott-Moncrieff—\u003ci\u003ealmost\u003c\/i\u003e fit in. In this delightfully evocative collection of stories, in which a young couple falls in and out of love by letter alone, an eleven-year-old boy battles a monstrous fish, and a man of the cloth has a premonition of death, Louis de Bernières conjures up a rural idyll long since forgotten. Funny, bittersweet, and deeply felt, \u003ci\u003eNotwithstanding\u003c\/i\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCorelli’s Mandolin\u003c\/i\u003e at his most enchanting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019962335472,"sku":"9781101969878","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101969878_p0.jpg?v=1763689984","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101969878","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}