{"product_id":"9781646053971","title":"The Animal on the Rock","description":"Author: Daniela Tarazona\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781646053971\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Jan 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 100\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe sun gives me comfort. The temperature outside calibrates the temperature of my body, and I know I am immortal when I'm on a rock.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter Irma's mother dies, she boards a plane to the coast. Soon she is consumed by strange dreams and irrational fears, and her body begins totransform in ways as unexpected as they are natural. The skin over her joints grows thick and scaly, hereyes take on a yellow gleam, and the border between reality and delirium becomes first elastic, then irrelevant. As the world around her tips out of balance-the weather turning volatile, strangers issuing cryptic warnings-she returns again and again to the rock where she undergoes metamorphosis: a series of radical mutations that enable her to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElemental and prophetic, intimate and universal,\u003ci\u003eThe Animal on the Rock\u003c\/i\u003ebears witness to the terror and magnificence of being a child, a parent, a changing animal. A profoundly biological and introspective novel that lies somewhere between clinical record and fever dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46836327514270,"sku":"ADS-9781646053971","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781646053971.jpg?v=1778738037","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781646053971","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}