{"product_id":"the-plains","title":"The Plains","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter a loss, a year in the country: four seasons to transform a garden and a self. 'In the city the notion of the hours of the day, of the passage of time, is lost. In the countryside that is impossible,' our narrator tells us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this remote house and garden, time is almost palpable; it goes by without haste and brings into sharp relief even the tiniest details: insects, the sound of the rain, a falling leaf, the smell of damp earth. Past and present are equally weighted and visible here, revealing themselves slowly with every season and turn of the spade.So a year unfolds. A garden takes shape as his connection deepens to this place, becoming a shelter from everyone and everything, perhaps even from himself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe see the ants devouring the chard, we hear the tales his grandmother told, perhaps real, perhaps taken from a movie, and we learn about his great love, Ciro. The humid sheets in the country, the carefully renovated apartment in the city and the painful, inexplicable break-up that prompted him to take refuge in this patch of now-carefully tended land.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2024\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Charco Press\u003cbr\u003ePages: 214\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1913867927\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781913867928\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Federico Falco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52908283232522,"sku":null,"price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781913867928.jpg?v=1776946835","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-plains","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}