{"product_id":"broken-ghost-book-niall-griffiths-9780224097932","title":"Broken Ghost","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA visionary novel from the edge of the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                          A Welsh community is drawn together and blown apart by a strange vision in the mountains: the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge. The people who live here in these mountains already have their own demons - drink, drugs, domestic violence, psychoses - but each character has a different experience of this strange apparition, a different reaction, and for some it will change everything. Is it a collective hallucination? A meteorological phenomenon? Whatever it is, they all saw something, early one morning on the shores of a mountain lake, something that will awaken in them powers and passions and, perhaps, a possibility of healing these broken people in a broken country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn examination of modern humanity's desperate need to live meaningfully and vividly in a mediated world - where individual autonomy is lost and the collective heart is atomised and exploited - this is a novel that gives voices to the marginalised, the dispossessed, the forgotten. Disturbing and unforgettable, darkly funny and deeply moving, written in a charged language that is vernacular, lyrical and hieratic all at once,\u003ci\u003e Broken Ghost \u003c\/i\u003eis - simultaneously - a howl of anguish and a summoning of gods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                          \u003cb\u003e 'Combines myth, drug culture and iconoclastic political vision in a wild music that's also a call to arms. This important book outstrips even its own virtuoso literary technique' \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49618499338513,"sku":"GOR012453812","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49649234936081,"sku":"GOR013644084","price":3.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49874107728145,"sku":"GOR010133469","price":5.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51594020159761,"sku":"GOR010219321","price":4.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0224097938.jpg?v=1786614837","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/broken-ghost-book-niall-griffiths-9780224097932","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}