{"product_id":"partita-by-barbara-kingsolver-9780571404711","title":"Partita","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR\u003c\/b\u003e  \n  \n\"[Kingsolver] reminds us that a novel can be wildly entertaining and still have a social conscience\" \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' (on \u003ci\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/i\u003e)  \n  \nYou've taken Demon to your hearts; prepare for another \"emotionally raw, riotously entertaining\" read as you meet Livia.  \n  \n\u003ci\u003eHere's my question: How does a person step in front of a train and leave everything right there?\u003c\/i\u003e  \n  \nLivia Bohusz misses her big brother, Cyrus. But since the day he took his own life, a day that changed everything, eleven-year-old Livia has also known she has no choice but to survive.  \n  \nHer solace is music. A gifted pianist, Livia's only escape is the quiet rapture it brings as she practises, so when Livia starts college as a music major and scholarship prodigy, it feels as if a new life might begin. Immersing herself in her passions in a world where she excels, even as she struggles to fit in with more urbane classmates, she glimpses the possibilities of a life beyond the farm and her parents.  \n  \nThen one springtime, as the smell of reviving grass and crocuses, and the sounds of songbirds fill the air, Livia catches a glimpse of shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, muscles you wouldn't miss in the rear view:  \n  \n\"Who is that man?\"  \n  \nIt is a question Livia may come to wish she had never asked.  \n  \n\u003cb\u003eReaders love Barbara Kingsolver:\u003c\/b\u003e  \n⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ \"Barbara Kingsolver's way with words is beyond description!\"  \n⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ \"That's the magic of Barbara Kingsolver I guess - to make you laugh in one line and then absolutely wreck you in the next. What a genius\"  \n⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ \"I love Kingsolver because I never know where she will go next but it will always be somewhere that I've never been before\"  \n⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ \"Barbara Kingsolver has an understanding of the human condition and the abuses inflicted by an unjust society upon those who do not deserve that\"  \n⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ \"A trademark ability to tell a story with empathy\"  \n⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ \"One of those writers who somehow can produce writing that sounds as natural as talking and yet that somehow comes out as poetry\"  \n⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ \"Kingsolver is a magician with words\"\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48022025208044,"sku":"9780571404711","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/partita-by-barbara-kingsolver-9780571404711","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}