{"product_id":"the-earth-is-falling","title":"The Earth is Falling","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Earth is Falling is a haunting and magical novel based around the existence of an abandoned village outside Naples. The deserted houses that still stand there are peopled with ghosts who live in a perpetual present from which time has effectively been abolished. The village appears to be semi-alive; the landslide which ominously awaits and which will eventually lead to the abandonment of the place has yet to arrive (yet its rumbles are heard).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePellegrino peoples Alento with eccentrics, luminaries, an eternally optimistic town crier. In the closing pages, the narrator Estella summons the remaining ghosts for a final dinner. The overall effect is unsettling, haunting and uncanny, the trapped souls doomed to repeat their circumscribed daily life for ever, cut off from the world but dimly aware of its continued presence outside.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe pervading mood of nostalgia and melancholy works in stark contrast with the inevitability of the impending catastrophe of the landslide that threatens to obliterate their world forever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: UK, 2024\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Prototype\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 207\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9781913513474\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 10: \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1913513474\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Carmen Pellegrino","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45379931504906,"sku":"","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781913513474.jpg?v=1711798649","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-earth-is-falling","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}