{"product_id":"is-beauty-good","title":"Is Beauty Good","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘That the music may be polyphonic is no grounds for not listening,’ scribbles a man for his stone-deaf friend.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIs Beauty Good\u003c\/em\u003e there are many such voices. People talk to various listeners, even to silent ones.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey talk to themselves, they resort to handwriting. The inanimate too may be granted a whimsical presence: a child’s tricycle, an antique chest. But, witty and ironic, the novel speaks with one voice of the things that speak, and don't speak to us: ‘I drank carrot juice, beetroot juice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDisgusting. It seemed undignified, to be so desperate as to drink beetroot juice. Yet people do it without a second thought.’It begins in Berlin by the Wall.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt ends in Berlin – still before 1989 – in the Tiergarten Zoo, to the boom and roar and moan of animals. More often we find ourselves in mountains or an English garden, in the natural world, the loss of which\u003cem\u003e Is Beauty Good \u003c\/em\u003eso memorably laments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: And Other Stories\u003cbr\u003ePages: 158\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1916751571\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781916751576\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rosalind Belben","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53400830050570,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781916751576.jpg?v=1784549265","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/is-beauty-good","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}