{"product_id":"9781908745545","title":"The River is The River","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Buckley, Jonathan \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 July 2015 by SORT OF BOOKS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e138 x 216 x 19 | 272g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman named Naomi arrives at her sister's house, intending, it seems, to say goodbye. She is abandoning her city life for a remote Scottish retreat, which she will share with a man called Bernat, whom she considers some kind of visionary.  In a sequence of stories filtered through multiple re-tellings, she illuminates the character of this elusive individual. One story seems of special significance: about Afonso, an Amazon boatman, who could be the last speaker of his mother tongue, a language of apparently unique simplicity and precision. Bernat and Naomi are not, however, the only storytellers here. Naomi's sister, Kate, is herself working on a novel that begins as a ghost story, but ends up as something rather different: The river is the river.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925408973059,"sku":"9781908745545","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781908745545_bcac0c38-c223-4dbf-98c3-94815df0a59d.jpg?v=1731415149","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781908745545","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}