{"product_id":"9781616963620","title":"The Circumference of the World","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax. In a story that is cosmic, inventive, and sly, multi-award-winning author Lavie Tidhar \u003c\/i\u003e(Central Station)\u003ci\u003e travels from the emergence of life to the very ends of the universe.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDelia Welegtabit discovered two things during her childhood on a South Pacific island: her love for mathematics and a novel that isn’t supposed to exist. But the elusive book proves unexpectedly dangerous. When Delia’s husband Levi goes missing, she seeks help from Daniel Chase, a young, face-blind book dealer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLode Stars\u003c\/i\u003e was written by the infamous Eugene Charles Hartley: legendary pulp science-fiction writer and founder of the Church of the All-Seeing Eyes. In Hartley’s novel, a doppelganger of Delia searches for her missing father in a strange star system with three black holes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOskar Lens, a Russian mobster in the midst of an existential crisis, is determined to find a copy of \u003ci\u003eLode Stars\u003c\/i\u003e. Oskar believes that the novel provides protection from unseen aliens, and that reality is only an unreliable memory that is billions of years old.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut is any of \u003ci\u003eLode Stars\u003c\/i\u003e real? Was Hartley a cynical conman on a quest for wealth and immortality, creating a religion he did not believe in? Or was he a visionary who truly discovered the secrets of the universe?","brand":"Tachyon Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47918033371376,"sku":"9781616963620","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616963620_p0.jpg?v=1763853564","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616963620","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}