{"product_id":"perfecting-the-shot-by-mathias-enard-9781804272633","title":"Perfecting the Shot","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the \u003cem\u003eperfect shot\u003c\/em\u003e. He sublimates himself into his weapon, learns to maintain impassivity, controls his breath, listens to his body and the beat of his heart. Lying in wait on rooftops, he takes aim at people below while his traumatised mother cowers in their flat. But the violence eats away at any sense of morality as he kills civilians and combatants indiscriminately, for the sake of killing itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis routine is disrupted by the arrival of Myrna, a fifteen-year-old girl hired to care for his mother, and his increasingly disturbing obsession with her soon threatens to push them all into the abyss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow appearing in English more than twenty years after its original publication, Mathias Enard's debut novel is a timeless study of how extreme violence corrodes the soul, tracking the convulsions of a brutalised mind in spare, unflinching prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67798134620396,"sku":"9781804272633","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781804272633-perfecting-the-shot-1.jpg?v=1792472328","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/perfecting-the-shot-by-mathias-enard-9781804272633","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}