{"product_id":"9781922079749","title":"Belomor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Masterful and unforgettable.\"—Pico Iyer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Melancholy, singular, exhilarating, \u003ci\u003eBelomor\u003c\/i\u003e reads like a haunted history of the world.\"—Delia Falconer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eBelomor\u003c\/i\u003e resists easy categorisation. Its many characters are elusive, some more types than characters, more mouthpieces than fully rounded individuals. But this does not detract from this beautiful and mesmerising book, which engages the intellect as well as the emotions.\"— \u003ci\u003eWeekend Australian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElegiac and seductive, \u003ci\u003eBelomor\u003c\/i\u003e is the frontier where truth and invention meet—where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man seeks out the father figure who shaped his picture of the past. A painter seeks redemption after the disasters of his years in northern Australia. A student of history travels into the depths of religion, the better to escape the demons in his mind. A filmmaker seeks out freedom and open space, and looks into the murk and sediment of herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour chapters: four journeys through life, separate, yet interwoven as the narrative unfolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this entrancing new book from one of Australia's most original writers, we meet European dissidents from the age of postwar communism, artists in the outback, snake hunters, opal miners, and desert magic healers. \u003ci\u003eBelomor\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on time and loss: on how the most bitter recollections bring happiness, and the meaning of a secret rests in the thoughts surrounding it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eNicolas Rothwell\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eWings of the Kite-Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eAnother Country\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThe Red Highway\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eJourneys to the Interior\u003c\/i\u003e . He lives in Darwin, Northern Territory, and is the \u003ci\u003eAustralian\u003c\/i\u003e newspaper's roving northern correspondent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelomor was chosen as one of the Times Literary Supplements Best Books of 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033270894832,"sku":"9781922079749","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922079749_p0.jpg?v=1763632866","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922079749","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}