{"product_id":"knife-party-at-the-hotel-europa","title":"Knife Party at the Hotel Europa","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;One of Canada's literary treasures, Mark Anthony Jarman returns with a\u0026amp;nbsp;book of moving and often funny tales of a man's quest for himself. A.S. Byatt says that his writing is \u0026amp;#34;extraordinary, his stories gripping,\u0026amp;#34; and in this gorgeous new collection, Jarman delivers something new once again.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt; \u0026lt;p\u0026gt;In \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Knife Party at the Hotel Europa\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;, Jarman writes about losing and finding love, marriage and melancholy, the dislocation and redemptive power of travel in Italy's sensual summer.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt; \u0026lt;p\u0026gt;A man travels to Italy to escape the memory of love lost, and a marriage ended. He passes through sun-drenched landscapes of cliffs and seaside paradises, while the corpses\u0026amp;nbsp; of refugees wash up on the beach; he parties with the young and beautiful Italians he meets on the train while a man bleeds to death in the hallway. A teenage thief prowls the roof of the tourist hotel at night; an embassy is bombed; holy statues come alive to roam in a gang stealing used restaurant grease.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt; \u0026lt;p\u0026gt;He suffers the acute loneliness of one who has abandoned and been abandoned, and in this exquisite suffering, he finds how beautiful this life can be. In vivid, sensuous prose, Jarman\u0026amp;#39;s stories circle and overlap in surprising, weird, and wonderful ways. Tangents turn out to be crucial, allusions are powerful.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66336554647901,"sku":null,"price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9780864929150.jpg?v=1793092875","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/knife-party-at-the-hotel-europa","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}