{"product_id":"f-a-novel","title":"F: A Novel","description":"'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work of deeply satisfying (and never merely clever) complexity' - John Burnside Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them. Having achieved nothing in life, Arthur Friedland is tricked on stage by a hypnotist and told to change everything. After he abandons his three young sons, they grow up to be a faithless priest, a broke financier and a forger. Each of them cultivates absence. One will be lost to it.  A novel about the game of fate and the fetters of family, F never stops questioning, exploring and teasing at every twist and turn of its Rubik's Cube-like narrative. **Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015**","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39663117238357,"sku":"9781784296230N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/a2198b37-67d2-4406-8642-0c35d740ca01.jpg?v=1644283122","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/f-a-novel","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}