{"product_id":"ghosts-by-john-banville-9781035076833","title":"Ghosts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGhosts\u003c\/em\u003e opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of the isle's reclusive savant; but the big isolated house which is home to Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic assistant, Licht, is also home to another, unnamed presence . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOnto this seemingly haunted island, where a strange singing hangs in the air, John Banville drops a scrumptious cast of characters—including a murderer—and weaves a tale where the details are clear but the conclusion polymorphous. Shifting appearances, transformations, and thwarted assumptions make this world of uneasy calm utterly enthralling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'As fascinating, complex, stimulating and energetic as any work of art . . . A work which proves Banville as a master, the artist in total control of his craft'\u003c\/em\u003e – The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'John Banville's funniest book . . . another triumph by our most outrageously inventive and daring novelist'\u003c\/em\u003e – The Sunday Independent\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Makes this astonishingly attractive novelist one of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction'\u003c\/em\u003e – The London Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47550324703468,"sku":"9781035076833","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035076833-ghosts.jpg?v=1776801081","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/ghosts-by-john-banville-9781035076833","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}