{"product_id":"little-world","title":"Little World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eAffecting, sensual, otherworldly... [\u003cem\u003eLittle World\u003c\/em\u003e] tenderly explores what small things can make a life sacred.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eLittle World\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003eDo Not Say We Have Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle World\u003c\/em\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003cem\u003eLittle World\u003c\/em\u003e is a dazzling feat by one of Australia's finest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53552935534958,"sku":"9798893380163","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_3ddb8008-4ae2-4ec2-ac8a-2f7e034ce739.jpg?v=1774576854","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/little-world","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}