{"product_id":"9781399814256","title":"Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Han Smith\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eRussia | Of specific Lesbian interest | Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e June 2024 by John Murray Press (John Murray Publishers Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 320 pages, N\/A \u003cbr\u003e216mm x 135mm | 0g\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"gardners-meta\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/StarEmpty.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Kaleidoscopic and beguiling . . .  A singular and thrilling  debut that shows what happens when objective truth and meaning are drowned in the shifting river of history and politics' ANDREW McMILLAN'Strange, intriguing, exhilarating' CAMILLA GRUDOVAThe almost daughter is almost normal, because she knows how to know and also not know.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe knows and does not know, for instance, about the barracks by the athletics field, and about the lonely woman she visits each week. She knows - almost - about ghosts, and their ghosts, and she knows not to have questions about them. She knows to focus on being a woman: on training her body and dreaming only of escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, the almost daughter meets Oksana. Oksana is not even almost normal, and the questions she has are not normal at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePortraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking is the story of a young woman coming of age in a town reckoning with its brutal past, for readers of Milkman and A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41135660990599,"sku":"9781399814256","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781399814256.jpg?v=1711637826","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9781399814256","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}