{"product_id":"land","title":"Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished \u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, gorgeous presence of its mosses, waters, winds, and skies.\" --Daniel Mason, author of \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and the lives of those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás, and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping and get them both home? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away. As spellbinding and varied as the landscape that inspired it, \u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e is, above all, a story of survival, for our times and for all time.","brand":"Maggie O'Farrell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53943779721429,"sku":"BS-I6J-320648","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/7170\/2485\/files\/9780593320648-HD.jpg?v=1779818254","url":"https:\/\/www.acornbookshop.com\/products\/land","provider":"Acorn Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}