{"product_id":"9781681143910","title":"Heart Fever","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter his much-acclaimed short story collection \u003cem\u003eDangerous Obsessions, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich had war as a common background\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eBelgian\/Flemish author Van Laerhoven surprises again with five stories that shed a piercing light on our most self-destructive impulses. A steroid-spiked Syrian mercenary of Bashar-al-Assad is determined to become a “martyr,” after the loss of his right arm by “friendly fire.” A retired London tube-driver becomes obsessed by his desire to revenge the vicious killing of his parents in Croatia on his half-nephew. A Belgian travel-writer gets entangled in the madness of the Kosovo-war during the nineties and witnesses its dramatic consequences many years later in New York. A jaded \u003cem\u003eart brut \u003c\/em\u003epainter in Brussels betrays his best friend, a Rwandese art forger, to the Mafia, opening the door to guilt, lust, and murder. A born liar with the nickname Johnny di Machio seeks in the seventies, in Poona, India, salvation in Bhagwan’s ashram for his sexual problems, but gets trapped in a maze of long hidden violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAldous Huxley wrote in \u003cem\u003eBrave New World (1932):\u003c\/em\u003e “\"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly --— they’'ll go through anything.” This is precisely what Van Laerhoven does, relentlessly exposing our inner solitude and voracious egos. \u003cem\u003eHeart Fever \u003c\/em\u003egoes way beyond heartache.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anaphora Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042562949360,"sku":"9781681143910","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681143910_p0.jpg?v=1763691790","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681143910","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}