{"product_id":"9781784706739","title":"Sea Monsters","description":"Winner of the 2020 PEN\/Faulkner Award'A mesmerizing, revelatory novel, smart and funny and laced with a strangeness... For my money, Chloe Aridjis is one of the most brilliant novelists working in English today' Garth GreenwellOne autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with the reckless, impulsive Tomás, a boy she barely knows. Their quest: to track down a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs who have recently escaped a touring circus.Together they head for Zipolite, the ‘Beach of the Dead’, a community peopled by hippies, nudists, beach combers and eccentric storytellers, and Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will ‘promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery’. But as Luisa wanders the shoreline, she begins to discover that a quest is more easily envisioned than accomplished.'Destined to be a classic: a richly imaginative, reflective and entracing novel' Xiaolu Guo","brand":"Chloe Aridjis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47096304927038,"sku":"9781784706739","price":309.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781784706739_8aad8ba0-1185-4d7a-bcb4-feac1447cc2e.jpg?v=1707623030","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781784706739","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}