{"product_id":"absence","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1953387993\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781953387998\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Quincy, Issa\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Two Dollar Radio\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jul 2025)","offer_id":46080570851525,"sku":"9781953387998","price":14.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781953387998.jpg?v=1776038387","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/absence","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}