{"product_id":"everything-like-before","title":"Everything Like Before","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003erom one of the greatest Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, comes a collection of spare, biting stories of people caught between reality and expectation, hope and despair, love and longing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man and a woman in a quiet, remote house, an old man on a park bench, an estranged brother in a railway café -- Kjell Askildsen's characters are surrounded by absence. Filled with disquiet, and longing, they walk to a fjord, they smoke, they drink on a veranda, they listen to conversations that drift through open windows. Small flashes like the promise of a sunhat, a nail in a cherry tree, or a raised flag, reveal the interminable space between desire and reality in which Askildsen's characters are forever suspended. Widely recognized as one of the greatest modern short-story writers, with unadorned prose and a dark humor, Askildsen captures life as it really is, the worlds of his characters uncanny mirrors of our own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47743855526045,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/8783\/5037\/files\/everythinglikebefore.jpg?v=1774042556","url":"https:\/\/postcardbookshop.com\/products\/everything-like-before","provider":"Postcard Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}