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As he moves through this landscape, he maps its thematic contours and fault lines, uncovering traces of the monstrous and the fantastic, of exile and escape, of conflict and vulnerability, and of the totemic central figure of the stranger.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51597077381393,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51597077643537,"sku":"NGR9780241990698","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51809290977553,"sku":"GOR014409047","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51851133845777,"sku":"GOR014427811","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52654699381009,"sku":"NLS9780241990698","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0241990696.jpg?v=1769689115"},{"product_id":"strangers-book-ekow-eshun-9780063450523","title":"The Strangers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Moving, thoughtful, redemptive. \u003ci\u003eThe Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book. It will become a Black classic.\"-- Ben Okri, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Famished Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: \u003ci\u003eThe Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding book. 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