{"product_id":"9781399814256","title":"Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking","description":"Author: Han Smith\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781399814256\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: John Murray\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Jun 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Tender and merciless . . . a hallucinatory window into what it means to excavate the past in a world committed to its erasure' ABIGAIL SHINN, Goldsmiths Prize Judge\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A novel full of hopeful glitter - and one I know I will return to' A K BLAKEMORE, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Insightful, affecting and assured . . . Written with a poetry as defamiliarising as it is rich' OISIN FAGAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Strange, intriguing, exhilarating' CAMILLA GRUDOVA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe almost daughter is almost normal, because she knows how to know and also not know.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen, the almost daughter meets Oksana. Oksana is not even almost normal, and the questions she has are not normal at all.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a young woman coming of age in a town reckoning with its brutal past, for readers of \u003ci\u003eMilkman \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Girl is a Half-Formed Thing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395813003422,"sku":"ADS-9781399814256","price":36.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781399814256.jpg?v=1768266251","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781399814256","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}