{"product_id":"9780141029023","title":"Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse","description":"A performance artist opens his chest and displays his beating heart on stage. A young man walks through the hills of south-west Romania, where the locals have peculiar ideas about gold. On the morning of a medical examination, a woman tries to coax her husband off the roof. A smuggler pays off an old debt to his sister and resigns himself to a life of honest toil in the mine-shafts of his home town. A mysterious rodent named Brigitte enters the lives of two old men. And, in the astonishing long story 'In the Neighbourhood', the inhabitants of a crumbling tower-block go about their business, unforgettably.     The stories of Philip Ó Ceallaigh create a world that is utterly original and yet immediately recognizable - a world of ordinary people grappling with work and idleness, ambition and frustration, wildness and sobriety, love and lust and decay. Scabrously honest, screamingly funny and beautifully crafted, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse is a brilliant debut from a writer who cannot be ignored by anyone who cares about the art of fiction.","brand":"Philip O Ceallaigh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45726743068990,"sku":"9780141029023","price":0.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780141029023_7f3311bb-7e0e-4981-991d-0f65f3501a3f.jpg?v=1707218659","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780141029023","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}