{"product_id":"9781471190582","title":"Run Me to Earth","description":"Author: Yoon, Paul\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781471190582\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribner UK\u003cbr\u003eYear First Published: 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 7.795 inches x 5.118 inches x 0.748 inches\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as, “one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other books.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Alisak, Prany, and Noi—three orphans united by devastating loss—must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n In a world where the landscape and the roads have turned into an ocean of bombs, we follow their grueling days of rescuing civilians and searching for medical supplies, until Vang secures their evacuation on the last helicopters leaving the country. It’s a move with irrevocable consequences—and sets them on disparate and treacherous paths across the world.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n Spanning decades and magically weaving together storylines laced with beauty and cruelty, Paul Yoon crafts a gorgeous story that is a breathtaking historical feat and a fierce study of the powers of hope, perseverance, and grace.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n “If you truly believe in the transformative power of literature then you must read this book. \u003ci\u003eRun Me to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a genuine masterpiece; fierce, tender, wise, earth-shattering, pulsating with love and hope.”\u003cb\u003e—MIRIAM TOEWS, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen Talking \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n “With \u003ci\u003eRun Me to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, Paul Yoon proves, yet again, that he is a master at finding depth of emotion in formal restraint and discovering the timeless core in the most urgent issues of our day. This is one of those rare novels that stays with us to become, over the years, a standard with which we measure other books.”\u003cb\u003e—HERNAN DIAZ, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Distance,\u003c\/i\u003e finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42540425838750,"sku":"HPC-9781471190582","price":25.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/products\/9781471190582.jpg?v=1681258433","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781471190582","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}