{"product_id":"little-world","title":"Little World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLittle World\u003c\/i\u003e holds tenderness, rage, faith and grace, and it does so in language--so precise, so exacting--it seems, at once, to cut through and join together the complexities of our relations. Each new work from Josephine Rowe is a revelation.\"--Madeleine Thien, author of \u003ci\u003eDo Not Say We Have Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle World\u003c\/i\u003e opens with the body of a child saint stranded in the Australian desert. Her name is unknown, as is the story of her life and the status of her canonization. She arrives in a box made of canoe timber, and Orrin Bird is dressed in his best clothes to receive her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the novel sweeps across time and place, from the 1950s to the present day, we encounter the long shadow of the saint in many forms, revealed section by section: from the retired engineer who unwittingly becomes her custodian, to a woman driving across the Nullarbor Plain in the mid-1970s with a pair of young lovers and haunted by the forced adoption of her only child many years before, and ending in contemporary Victoria.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs we follow the lives the child saint touches across time, what is revealed is a haunting reflection on violence and the interdependency of all things. \u003ci\u003eLittle World\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling feat by one of Australia's finest writers.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Josephine Rowe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46724405887212,"sku":"9798893380163","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9798893380163.jpg?v=1754728516","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/little-world","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}