{"product_id":"wgy4x7i3rfpe","title":"The World Goes On by Laszlo Krasznahaorkai [Paperback]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eShortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell ('\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003efor here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'). As László Krasznahorkai himself explains: 'Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative...'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe World Goes On\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis another masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. 'The excitement of his writing,' Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 'is that he has come up with his own original forms-there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Profile Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48078938046714,"sku":"WGY4X7I3RFPE","price":510.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/9781788160124_1_1.jpg?v=1780408713","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/wgy4x7i3rfpe","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}