{"product_id":"country-people","title":"Country People","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of NORTH WOODS, a joyous new novel about marriage, family, friendship, storytelling, and how people find connection in an increasingly fragmented world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr class=\"rte-ignore-br\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo when his wife Kate accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the far away forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, who possesses, in Kate's, words, 'a great capacity to fall in with anyone, anywhere'. Soon he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales - from a ghostly tree surgeon, to a scythe-mad biochemist, a Shakespearean temptress, and a photographer of snowflakes - until at last he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend, which, he begins to suspect, might not be a legend at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Ball Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":51735436132640,"sku":"9781399835022","price":425.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/2916\/0559\/files\/9781399835022_efa0ca94-71cf-406e-9c8d-31e2db947ad4.jpg?v=1779484865","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookkeepershop.co.za\/products\/country-people","provider":"The Book Keeper Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}