{"product_id":"architecture-of-fear","title":"Architecture Of Fear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Brilliant, inventive and marvellously written'' ALBERTO MANGUEL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA world without walls, without curtains, is not believable.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecause there is no world without fears.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalls, curtains, are the architecture of fear. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd the fear is us.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of a forest there is a city surrounded by walls. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside, the people are haunted by the memory of The Great Disaster that eliminated two thirds of their population.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unsettling, powerful and strikingly-written dystopian fable about revolution, power and oppression - for readers of Agustina Bazterrica, Margaret Atwood, and \u003ci\u003eI Who Have Never Known Men\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eÁngel Gurría-Quintana is a historian, journalist and literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese. He writes regularly for the books pages of the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e. His translations include \u003ci\u003eOther Carnivals: Short Stories from Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e (Full Circle Editions, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eThe Return\u003c\/i\u003e, by Dulce Maria Cardoso (Maclehose Press, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57194657513854,"sku":"NW9781914495977","price":18.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781914495977.jpg?v=1778548400","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/architecture-of-fear","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}