{"product_id":"9781784706739","title":"Sea Monsters","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Aridjis, Chloe\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMexico\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 13 February 2020 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e191 x 141 x 13 | 162g\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2020 PEN\/Faulkner Award'A mesmerizing, revelatory novel, smart and funny and laced with a strangeness... For my money, Chloe Aridjis is one of the most brilliant novelists working in English today' Garth GreenwellOne autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with the reckless, impulsive Tomas, a boy she barely knows. Their quest: to track down a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs who have recently escaped a touring circus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether they head for Zipolite, the 'Beach of the Dead', a community peopled by hippies, nudists, beach combers and eccentric storytellers, and Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will 'promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery'. But as Luisa wanders the shoreline, she begins to discover that a quest is more easily envisioned than accomplished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Destined to be a classic: a richly imaginative, reflective and entracing novel' Xiaolu Guo\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aridjis, Chloe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465795801272,"sku":"9781784706739","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781784706739.jpg?v=1734714094","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781784706739","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}