{"product_id":"the-hired-man-paperback","title":"The Hired Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAminatta Forna\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Forna is a born storyteller. . . . Not since \u003ci\u003eRemains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e has an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are often invisible to all but its participants. . . . Gorgeous.\"--John Freeman, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Haunting . . . Detail builds upon detail until the dread and violence that have been barely restrained burst into the open.\"--Anthony Domestico, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn NPR, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e best book of the year, \u003ci\u003eThe Hired Man\u003c\/i\u003e--now available in paperback--is an incisive, powerful novel of a small Croatian town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders. Duro Kolak, a stoic lifelong resident of the Croatian village of Gost, is off on a morning's hunt when he discovers that a British family has taken up residence in a house Duro knows well. He offers his assistance getting their water working again, and soon he is at the house every day, helping get it ready as their summer cottage, and serving as their trusted confidant. But the other residents of Gost are not as pleased to have the interlopers, and as the friendship deepens, the volatile truths about the town's past and the house's former occupants whisper ever louder. A masterpiece of storytelling haunted by lost love and a restrained menace, \u003ci\u003eThe Hired Man\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Aminatta Forna as one of our most important writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Forna modulates the growing suspense with exquisite skill. . . . Beautiful, reminiscent in its mesmerizing clarity of William Trevor's fiction or Per Petterson's.\"--Anna Mundow, \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Absorbing . . . Forna's unwavering gaze compels a close look at the complexities of our shared histories.\"--Ellah Allfrey, NPR (online)\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAminatta Forna\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two previous novels, \u003ci\u003eAncestor Stones\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Memory of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Devil That Danced on the Water\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir of her activist father, and her country, Sierra Leone. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757505675552,"sku":"9780802121929","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/674b851111065a960955a95705b9ec70.webp?v=1780104529","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-hired-man-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}