{"product_id":"9781555971595","title":"Sweet and Sour Milk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed \u003ci\u003eVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, \u003ci\u003eSweet and Sour Milk\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles one man's search for the reasons behind his twin brother's violent death during the 1970s. The atmosphere of political tyranny and repression reduces our hero's quest to a passive and fatalistic level; his search for reasons and answers ultimately becomes a search for meaning. The often detective-story-like narrative of this novel thus moves on a primarily interior plane as \"Farah takes us deep into territory he has charted and mapped and made uniquely his own\" (Chinua Achebe).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055438217456,"sku":"9781555971595","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555971595_p0.jpg?v=1763755553","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555971595","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}