{"product_id":"grove-a-field-novel-paperback","title":"Grove: A Field Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEsther Kinsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCaroline Schmidt\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGrove\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of an existence stilled by loss, but the promise of life, and with it renewal and hope, pulses gently but steadily at its heart.\"--Lucy Scholes, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to a small village southeast of Rome. It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery, she embarks on walks and outings, exploring the banal and the sublime with equal dedication and intensity. Seeing, describing, naming the world around her is her way of redefining her place within it. In Kinsky's \u003ci\u003eGrove\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2018 Leipzig Book Prize, grief must bear the weight of the world and full of grief the narrator becomes one with the brittle manifestations of the Italian winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEsther Kinsky grew up by the river Rhine and lived in London for twelve years. She is the author of three volumes of poetry and two novels, including \u003ci\u003eRiver\u003c\/i\u003e, and has translated many notable English (John Clare, Henry David Thoreau, Lewis Grassic Gibbon) and Polish (Miron Bialoszewski, Zygmunt Haupt, Ida Fink, Olga Tokarczuk) authors into German. \u003ci\u003eGrove\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 2018 Leipzig Book Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 287\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760093692192,"sku":"9781945492389","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f23bbc1fe694daeb1c7233371b2c0b13.webp?v=1780171470","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/grove-a-field-novel-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}