{"product_id":"sunset-park","title":"Sunset Park","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuster''s novel of love and forgiveness from the author of contemporary classic \u003ci\u003eThe New York Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e: ''a literary voice for the ages'' (\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e)    \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eS\u003ci\u003eunset Park \u003c\/i\u003eis set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York seven years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father - a confrontation he has been avoiding for years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet against the backdrop of the devastating global recession, and pulsing with the energy of Auster''s previous novel \u003ci\u003eInvisible\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunset Park\u003c\/i\u003e is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318898925950,"sku":"NW9780571258802","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571258802.jpg?v=1779285825","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/sunset-park","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}