{"product_id":"9781035431175","title":"The Architecture of Fear by Sandro William Junqueira","description":"'Brilliant, inventive and marvellously written' ALBERTO MANGUELA world without walls, without curtains, is not believable.\u003cp\u003eBecause there is no world without fears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalls, curtains, are the architecture of fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the fear is us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of a forest there is a city surrounded by walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, the people are haunted by the memory of The Great Disaster that eliminated two thirds of their population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dictatorial regime insists that order and discipline will protect the people from the threats of nature, but when a soldier is found mutilated outside the city walls on a winter's night, a new order takes root silently in the minds of the oppressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne by one, they gather to listen to the voice of a man claiming to possess the gift of knowing what is to come. The man known as The Messenger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unsettling, powerful and strikingly-written dystopian fable about revolution, power and oppression - for readers of Agustina Bazterrica, Margaret Atwood, and I Who Have Never Known Men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eÁngel Gurría-Quintana is a historian, journalist and literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese. He writes regularly for the books pages of the Financial Times. His translations include Other Carnivals: Short Stories from Brazil (Full Circle Editions, 2013) and The Return, by Dulce Maria Cardoso (Maclehose Press, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback,\u003cbr\u003ePagination: 352 pages","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47806946803939,"sku":"9781035431175","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781035431175.jpg?v=1767952190","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781035431175","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}