{"product_id":"strangers-at-the-port-9781399608169","title":"Strangers at the Port","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original''\u003cb\u003e LUCIE ELVEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''I loved\u003ci\u003e Strangers at the Port\u003c\/i\u003e. It is deliciously spare, yet complex - a story of the past as well as a vision of the future''\u003cb\u003e SARA BAUME\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiulia is ten. She lives on the greenest island in a volcanic archipelago. She has never left.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer best friend, beside her older sister, Giovanna, is a donkey. She ties ribbons around his head and thinks she will marry him when the time comes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sisters'' days on the island are shaped by ritual, community, superstition and isolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a place that feels stuck in time: verdant, plentiful, peaceful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil the men arrive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd a foreign yacht anchors at the port.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd the vines begin to fail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd everything changes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eDolores\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStrangers at the Port\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite, enchanted, atmospheric novel about myth and me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCurtis - who was included on Granta's recent Best of Young British Novelists list - writes dazzlingly confident prose, too rich to be called spare yet without any superfluous weight. She writes the island as if she were Celine Sciamma shooting \u003ci\u003ePortrait of a Lady on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e -- Francesca Peacock * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *\u003cbr\u003eAn incredible novel about how the quiet, ritualistic lives of a pair sisters are shaken by the arrival of strangers on their island -- Anna Bonet * THE I PAPER *\u003cbr\u003eStrangers at the Port is both a fascinating delve into the small, personal stories sacrificed to the grander sweep of history and a provocative creation of a fable for our times -- Emily Rhodes * THE SPECTATOR *\u003cbr\u003eLushly poetic -- Lucy Thynne * LITERARY REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003eCurtis's writing is beautiful * GOOD READING *\u003cbr\u003eReading this wonderfully oblique historical tale is a little like looking at the way light refracts through a prism: its meanings and impressions disperse along its journey to reveal what the author herself has termed 'the slippery overlap between history, fiction and memory' . . . Fascinating -- Catherine Jarvie * MARIE CLAIRE, Best Books of 2023 *\u003cbr\u003eMagnificent -- Cal Revely-Calder * TELEGRAPH REVIEW, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eStubbornly enigmatic * SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eA mesmeric and lyrical novel about a fictive island and its inhabitants, which eschews narrative convention in favour of something more elusive, fractured, and choral . . . truly original -- Ralf Webb * GRANTA, Books of the Year *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738904408407,"sku":"9781399608169","price":14.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781399608169.jpg?v=1720050542","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/strangers-at-the-port-9781399608169","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}