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Around these characters circle others, in the contrapuntal manner of the fugue suggested by the book's title.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49597081059601,"sku":"GOR009271423","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1999899628.jpg?v=1750902102"},{"product_id":"garden-book-book-brian-castro-9781885030078","title":"The Garden Book","description":"Brian Castro’s award-winning novel, The Garden Book, is a meditation on loneliness, addiction and exploitation. Set in the years between the Depression and the Second World War in Australia’s Dandenong Ranges, it follows the emotionally turbulent life of the beautiful Swan Hay (born Shuang He)--her marriage to the passionate yet brutal Darcy Damon, her love affair with the aviator Jasper Zenlin and her rise to literary fame overseas after her poetry is translated into French without her knowledge. Fifty years after her disappearance into institutions and a life of poverty and despair, Norman Shih--a rare-book librarian and \"expert in self-effacement\"--begins to piece together the life and losses of Swan. Tracking down clues from guesthouse libraries, antiquarian bookshops and Swan’s own haunted writings, Shih fills out a portrait of early twentieth-century Australian lives wracked by modernist impulses of racial prejudice.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51057463427345,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51057465917713,"sku":"NIN9781885030078","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52131839279377,"sku":"NLS9781885030078","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/188503007X.jpg?v=1750931827"},{"product_id":"chinese-postman-book-brian-castro-9781923106130","title":"Chinese Postman","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51596400230673,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51596401148177,"sku":"GOR014341616","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1923106139.jpg?v=1750835614"},{"product_id":"shanghai-dancing-book-brian-castro-9781885030429","title":"Shanghai Dancing","description":"After 40 years in Australia, António Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls \"Shanghai Dancing,\" António seeks to understand the source of his condition in his family's wanderings. Reversing his parents' own migration, António heads back to their native Shanghai, where his world begins to fragment as his ancestry starts to flood into his present, and emissaries of glittering pre-war China, evangelical Liverpool and seventeenth-century Portugal merge into contemporary backdrops across Asia, Europe and Australia. A \"fictional autobiography,\" Shanghai Dancing is a dazzling meditation on identity, language and disorientation that combines photographs and written images in the style of W.G. Sebald. 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