{"product_id":"latitudes-of-longing-9780593132562","title":"Latitudes of Longing","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a major new literary talent from India\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A marvel of magical realism.”—\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A spellbinding work of literature, \u003ci\u003eLatitudes of Longing \u003c\/i\u003efollows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true intimacy. The novel sweeps across India, from an island, to a valley, a city, and a snow desert, to tell a love story of epic proportions. We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free her revolutionary son; a yeti who seeks human companionship; a turtle who transforms first into a boat and then a woman; and the ghost of an evaporated ocean as restless as the continents. Binding them all together is a vision of life as vast as the universe itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A young writer awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in India for this novel, Shubhangi Swarup is a storyteller of extraordinary talent and insight. Richly imaginative and wryly perceptive, \u003ci\u003eLatitudes of Longing \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a soaring view of humanity: our beauty and ugliness, our capacity to harm and love one another, and our mysterious and sacred relationship with nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature • Shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature • Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award • Winner of the Sushila Devi Literature Award for the Best Book of Fiction Written by a Woman • Winner of the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":58382268727683,"sku":"9780593132562","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780593132562.jpg?v=1783016577","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/latitudes-of-longing-9780593132562","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}