{"product_id":"partita-barbara-kingsolver-9780571404711","title":"Partita","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the global bestselling author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'[Kingsolver] reminds us that a novel can be wildly entertaining and still have a social conscience' \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' (on Demon Copperhead)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou've taken Demon to your hearts, prepare for another 'emotionally raw, riotously entertaining' read as you meet Livia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA song without any answer in it? That's the sound of waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLivia Bohusz misses her brother, Cyrus. Unmoored by his death, and the stifling silence of the family farm, eleven-year-old Livia has no choice but to survive. Her only solace: music, an escape in the quiet rapture piano practice brings. The promise of a new life her talent offers, intoxicating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo when Livia starts her college music scholarship it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she struggles to fit in with more urbane classmates, she glimpses the possibilities of a life beyond the farm and her parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and crocuses and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, muscles you wouldn't miss in the rear view:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Who is that man?'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom one of the greatest writers alive comes Livia's story, Partita, both a coming-of-age narrative and an examination of midlife hopes and regrets, a novel as simple as love and longing, as touching, complex and finely tuned as the music it celebrates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReaders love Barbara Kingsolver:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★★★★★ 'Barbara Kingsolver's way with words is beyond description!'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★★★★★ 'That's the magic of Barbara Kingsolver I guess – to make you laugh in one line and then absolutely wreck you in the next. What a genius'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★★★★★ 'I love Kingsolver because I never know where she will go next but it will always be somewhere that I've never been before'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★★★★★ 'Barbara Kingsolver has an understanding of the human condition and the abuses inflicted by an unjust society upon those who do not deserve that'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★★★★★ 'A trademark ability to tell a story with empathy'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★★★★★ 'One of those writers who somehow can produce writing that sounds as natural as talking and yet that somehow comes out as poetry'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e★★★★★ 'Kingsolver is a magician with words'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67639604674848,"sku":"9780571404711","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780571404711_3105333.jpg?v=1791763619","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/partita-barbara-kingsolver-9780571404711","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}