{"product_id":"the-anniversary-by-andrea-bajani-9780241766507","title":"The Anniversary","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful and merciless novel about the tyranny of the family—and a highly acclaimed bestseller in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn that day, ten years ago, I saw my parents for the last time. Since then I've changed phone numbers, houses, continents, I've erected an impregnable wall and put an ocean between us. They've been the best ten years of my life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA son is celebrating a bittersweet anniversary. It is a decade since he saw his parents: the father who ruled through petty acts of intimidation and fear, the mother who silently accepted it, fitting herself in the spaces around others' lives. As he looks back, he recalls the airless family home, unsettled only by the ringing of a telephone, or a visitor who was soon rejected. And he remembers how he became possessed by the irrepressible desire to be free, to live his own life. But can you ever escape the grip of your origins?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt once unflinchingly honest and razor sharp, \u003cem\u003eThe Anniversary\u003c\/em\u003e is above all a novel of liberation which dismantles the tyranny of the family. It becomes a mirror in which we glimpse something that, even if we have not known it, affects us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47976747335916,"sku":"9780241766507","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241766507-the-anniversary.jpg?v=1784698820","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-anniversary-by-andrea-bajani-9780241766507","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}