{"product_id":"testament-of-mary","title":"Testament Of Mary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín''s \u003ci\u003eThe Testament of Mary\u003c\/i\u003e is the moving story of the Virgin Mary, told by a novelist famous for writing brilliantly about the family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn, \u003c\/i\u003ein a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, \u003ci\u003eThe Testament of Mary \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son''s brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs her life and her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth, Mary struggles to break the silence surrounding what she knows to have happened. In her effort to tell the truth in all its gnarled complexity, she slowly emerges as a figure of immense moral stature as well as a woman from history rendered now as fully human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Testament of Mary\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''This is a short book, but it is as dense as a diamond\u003c\/b\u003e. It is as tragic as a Spanish pieta, but it is completely heretical...Tóibín maintains all the dignity of Mary without subscribing to the myths that have accumulated around her''  Edmund White, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Depicting the harrowing losses and evasions that can go on between mothers and sons...Tóibín \u003cb\u003ecreates a reversed Pièta: he holds the mother in his arms\u003c\/b\u003e''  \u003ci\u003eIndependent \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eA beautiful and daring work\u003c\/b\u003e...it takes its power from the surprise of its language, its almost shocking characterization''  Mary Gordon, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305714884990,"sku":"NW9780241962978","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241962978.jpg?v=1778263082","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/testament-of-mary","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}