{"product_id":"bitch-a-novel","title":"The Bitch","description":"\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A perfect book.\" --Kiran Desai, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Unforgettable. . . a powerful, jolting tale about class, motherhood and rage.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this intense, spare, brilliantly observed novel, a woman's dangerously primal feelings are awakened when she adopts an orphaned puppy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On a bluff overlooking Colombia's rough Pacific coast, at the edge of the jungle--a world where nothing is taken for granted -Damaris lives in a shack with her fisherman husband. Her dream of a child unfulfilled and the warmth of her marriage cooled, she has reached the age \"when women dry up,\" as her uncle puts it. When the opportunity arises, she takes in a motherless puppy with eagerness and immediate affection. She does not yet know the risk she is taking in forging a bond that touches her most painful losses and her tenderest yearnings.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In prose as terse as the villagers Damaris lives among, \u003ci\u003eThe Bitch\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the double-edged force of the instinct to nurture and the desperate desire to be nurtured in turn.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Bitch A Novel","offer_id":46528119472325,"sku":null,"price":47.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/979-8-217-43474-9.jpg?v=1783905020","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/bitch-a-novel","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}