{"product_id":"the-hired-man-paperback","title":"The Hired Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAminatta Forna\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning Scottish and Sierra Leonean novelist \"brilliantly portrays the atmosphere\" of Croatia in this haunting tale of war, history, and secrets (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisitors are not common in the small Croatian village of Gost, so Duro is surprised to see a strange car pull up to a well-known farmhouse just outside of town. Laura, a British woman, and her two children are refurbishing the home to be their summer cottage, and Duro agrees to lend a hand, becoming Laura's confidant along the way. But the rest of the residents of Gost are not so pleased to have outsiders in their midst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Duro works to shield Laura and her family from the town's hostility, volatile secrets begin to bubble to the surface--secrets that could threaten everyone in the seemingly sleepy town, even the unwitting new residents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hired Man\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of lost love, dangerous history, and quiet malice. \"Not since \u003ci\u003eRemains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e has an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are invisible to all but it's participants, who do what they must to survive\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53457754456371,"sku":"9780802121929","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/QDYtgs2jEt9780802121929.webp?v=1781271654","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/the-hired-man-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}