{"product_id":"9781953387998","title":"Absence","description":"\u003cb\u003eHaunting and atmospheric, Issa Quincy’s \u003ci\u003eAbsence\u003c\/i\u003e is an indelible nesting doll of human impression and memory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a child, an unnamed narrator’s mother reads to him a poem. Throughout his life, the poem reappears mysteriously, in the affecting life experiences of others as they are recounted to him. An eccentric and beloved schoolteacher leaves behind a dark secret after his death. An elderly woman returns to the same hotel on the Tunisian coast every year as an act of remembrance for a disappeared brother. The son of a wealthy Indian businessman, the pariah of his family, finds solidarity and the distant pang of freedom within the letters of an estranged Aunt. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs we follow characters on their journeys of self-discovery through the jungle of Thailand, as a child in the British countryside, or as an aging doctor on the island of Cyprus, \u003ci\u003eAbsence \u003c\/i\u003eevocatively builds a compassionate symphony of nostalgia, attuned to the drama of everyday and the phantoms that linger with us. Issa Quincy has constructed a transcendent portrait of humanity, deftly illuminating those memories that forever bind us to one another.","brand":"Issa Quincy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47432565686484,"sku":"9781953387998","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8ecbb2ef-f604-4ddf-b981-cd037485b3bc.jpg?v=1767993420","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781953387998","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}