{"product_id":"ill-take-the-fire-by-leila-slimani-9780571395347","title":"I'll Take the Fire","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Leïla Slimani has a knack for breaking taboos.' \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Slimani is a fearless writer.' \u003cem\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQ: If your house was burning down, what would you take with you?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA: I'd take the fire.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of two sisters, Mia and Inés. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by the social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the twenty-first century and silenced by the political 'truths' that envelop their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMia - the eldest, a warrior and a pariah, her sexuality a matter of scorn, something to be erased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInés - the youngest, a woman trying to carve out an identity in a Paris that derides and erases her, with no way back to Morocco, a homeland to which her father has warned her never to return, for her own sake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs these sisters struggle to find a home - a place of safety and love that holds rather than binds - their lives as framed by their mothers and grandmothers before them will be a battle for their hearts and souls, and one they take on with every sinew of their being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'We feel deeply for the family caught in the middle of the conflict of history.' Salman Rushdie, on \u003cem\u003eThe Country of Others\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47548194947308,"sku":"9780571395347","price":16.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5ffd7e57b5fb05edf237e99b199e2a1b.jpg?v=1776908827","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/ill-take-the-fire-by-leila-slimani-9780571395347","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}