{"product_id":"in-the-heart-of-the-valley-of-love-california-fiction-9780520207288","title":"In the Heart of the Valley of Love California","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by the author of The Floating World, this novel explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, gas and education cannot be taken for granted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An apocalyptic picture of America on the brink of civil disorder and social collapse. . . . The writing is lucid and finely honed, often lyrical and occasionally magical.\"  -- Michiko Kakutani, * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Kadohata's finely wrought prose creates haunting pictures.\" * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\"A chilling vision of the 21st century, conceived with prescient imagination and rendered in lean, evocative prose that blossoms into stunning images. ,. . . As timely as this week's news, yet with the enduring value of literature, this novel speaks simply but eloquently of the human spirit's capacity to survive. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Kadohata is masterful in her evocation of physical, spiritual, and cultural displacement. . . . The message of this marvelous though often painful book is that our capacity to feel deep emotion—our own and others's—just might bind us together, and save us from ourselves.\" * Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003e\"Kadohata manages with lean, uncomplicated prose to tell a remarkable story of love and redemption, with characters who are credible and sympathetic.\" * Chicago Tribune *\u003cbr\u003e\"Recommended as an effective depiction of what the future might hold.\" * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautifully crafted novel that warns and hurts and delights.\" * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"This remarkable novel, set in 2052, imagines a Los Angeles in which class and economic inequities are heightened and resources have grown scarce. It’s not dystopia that interests Kadohata, however, but survival: the various ways we get along.\" * Alta: Journal of Alta California *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack Pearls\u003cbr\u003e A Cage of Light\u003cbr\u003e Hope\u003cbr\u003e Family Man\u003cbr\u003e Jewel\u003cbr\u003e Possibilities\u003cbr\u003e Like a Giant Game-Show Board\u003cbr\u003e Long Ago\u003cbr\u003e Outpost\u003cbr\u003e Tattoo City\u003cbr\u003e No One Would Notice\u003cbr\u003e Heat\u003cbr\u003e Insolence\u003cbr\u003e \"I Was Here\"\u003cbr\u003e Helicopters\u003cbr\u003e In the Valley of Love","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402804765015,"sku":"9780520207288","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520207288.jpg?v=1730481557","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-the-heart-of-the-valley-of-love-california-fiction-9780520207288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}