{"product_id":"my-yellow-submarine-by-jon-kalman-stefansson-9781529439380","title":"My Yellow Submarine","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStefánsson is a writer of great scope and imagination\u003c\/strong\u003e — Ronan Hession, author of \u003ci\u003eLeonard and Hungry Paul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA middle-aged man on a bench in a London park sees Paul McCartney sitting nearby.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eResolving to approach him, he gathers his thoughts and takes up the thread of his memories, marked by the Beatles' repertoire...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA mother plays \"Yellow Submarine\" on the harmonica to her seven-year-old son. She dies and leaves a void. A few months later, the Beatles split up. Another great loss in his life. A distant father, silent and abusive, does not help. Only when the boy finds shelter in his own yellow submarine — a room in the basement of the public library — does his life begin to take shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom one of Europe's most compelling stylists, \u003ci\u003eMy Yellow Submarine\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful and life-affirming novel that sees a boy's lonely childhood linked to timeless stories and legends, the Beatles, and the austerity of life in Iceland in the eighties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLike fellow Scandinavian authors Jon Fosse and Karl Ove Knausgaard, Stefánsson joins plainspoken depictions of daily life to intimations of mysticism, creating a spectral, haunted atmosphere\u003c\/strong\u003e — Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48347670675692,"sku":"9781529439380","price":31.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529439380-my-yellow-submarine-1.jpg?v=1789183926","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/my-yellow-submarine-by-jon-kalman-stefansson-9781529439380","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}