{"product_id":"my-yellow-submarine","title":"My Yellow Submarine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Stefánsson is a writer of great scope and imagination\" RONAN HESSION, author of \u003ci\u003eLeonard and Hungry Paul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA middle-aged man on a bench in a London park sees Paul McCartney sitting nearby.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResolving to approach him, he puts gathers his thoughts and takes up the thread of his memories, marked by the Beatles' repertoire . . .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A mother plays \"Yellow Submarine\" on the harmonica to her seven-year-old son. She dies and leaves a void. A few months later, the Beatles split up. Another great loss in his life. A distant father, silent and abusive doesn't help. Only when the boy finds shelter in this own yellow submarine - a room in the basement of the public library - does his life begin to take shape.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From one of Europe's most compelling stylists, \u003ci\u003eYellow Submarine\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful and life-affirming novel that sees a boy's lonely childhood linked to timeless stories and legends, the Beatles, and the austerity of life in Iceland in the eighties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Like fellow Scandinavian authors Jon Fosse and Karl Ove Knausgaard, Stefánsson joins plainspoken depictions of daily life to intimations of mysticism, creating a spectral, haunted atmosphere\" Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"My Yellow Submarine","offer_id":50622368710853,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-5294-3938-0.jpg?v=1791155964","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/my-yellow-submarine","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}