{"product_id":"happiness-book-aminatta-forna-9780802127556","title":"Happiness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThroughout \u003ci\u003eHappiness\u003c\/i\u003e, Forna stops in our tracks . . . Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje's novel \u003ci\u003eAnil's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eHappiness\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cruelty and mercy. But Forna folds this weighty matter into her buoyant creation with a sublimely delicate touch.--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLondon. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide--Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. From this chance encounter, Aminatta Forna's unerring powers of observation show how in the midst of the rush of a great city lie numerous moments of connection. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAttila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma, as he has done many times before; and to contact the daughter of friends, his niece who hasn't called home in a while. Ama has been swept up in an immigration crackdown, and now her young son Tano is missing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen, by chance, Attila runs into Jean again, she mobilizes the network of rubbish men she uses as volunteer fox spotters. Security guards, hotel doormen, traffic wardens--mainly West African immigrants who work the myriad streets of London--come together to help. As the search for Tano continues, a deepening friendship between Attila and Jean unfolds. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeanwhile a consulting case causes Attila to question the impact of his own ideas on trauma, the values of the society he finds himself in, and a grief of his own. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49587072467217,"sku":"GOR011700610","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49955137126673,"sku":"CIN080212755XG","price":4.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50518319202577,"sku":"CIN080212755XVG","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007398773009,"sku":"NIN9780802127556","price":25.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/080212755X.jpg?v=1751201736","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/happiness-book-aminatta-forna-9780802127556","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}