{"product_id":"the-world-goes-on-by-laszlo-krasznahorkai-9781788160124","title":"The World Goes On","description":"Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/i\u003e, a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell ('for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me'). As Laszlo Krasznahorkai himself explains: 'Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative...'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World Goes On\u003c\/i\u003e is another masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. 'The excitement of his writing,' Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, 'is that he has come up with his own original forms - there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.'","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47289054986476,"sku":"9781788160124","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18130283482824.jpg?v=1770586420","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-world-goes-on-by-laszlo-krasznahorkai-9781788160124","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}