{"product_id":"a-stranger-city-9780349010502","title":"A Stranger City","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020 `A superb piece of writing about London life. Past Wingate winners include Zadie Smith, Amos Oz and David Grossman'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e'[A] shimmering new novel . . . Grant's book is as much a love letter to London as a lament, an ode to pink skin after sunny days and lost gloves waving from railings' The Economist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A compelling portrait of contemporary London, it's a novel fit for shifting, uncertain times' Suzi Feay, Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A Stranger City feels like a very important novel for right now: no politically ponderous diatribe but a witty, sunlounger-accessible and deeply humanising story about people - about us - and the societal shipwreck we're stuck in' Evening Standard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman and confirms a sense that in London a person can become invisible once outside their community - and that assumes they even have a community. A policeman, a documentary film-maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways. London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships - and some, like Chrissie intersect with many. The film-maker and the policeman meanwhile have safe homes with wives - or do they? An immigrant family speaks their own language only privately; they have managed to integrate - or have they? The wonderful Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea. How all our lives intersect and how coincidence or the randomness of birth place can decide how we live and with whom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virago Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42978443460774,"sku":"9780349010502","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9780349010502_1_a160342e-ab6c-431f-9c4f-f1e7b7074fad.jpg?v=1656107511","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/a-stranger-city-9780349010502","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}