{"product_id":"9781844719464","title":"Entertaining Strangers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2013 East Midlands Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertaining Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is a tragi-comedy about the eccentric Edwin Prince – a depressive intellectual obsessed with high culture and ants – and the mysterious, homeless narrator Jules, who gradually unravels Edwin’s impossible relationships with his landlady, neurotic mother, psychotic brother, domineering ex-wife, dead grandfather and, above all, his ant-farm. At the same time, Jules continually experiences traumatic memories full of fire and water, and gradually a terrible pre-history emerges from beneath all of the other stories, which seems somehow to shape both Jules’s fiery dreams and Edwin’s obsessions – a great fire, massacre and one girl's drowning in Smyrna, 75 years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salt Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137028243696,"sku":"9781844719464","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844719464_p0.jpg?v=1763743910","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844719464","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}