{"product_id":"9781913513924","title":"Fathership, the","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Glenn Bech, Hazel Evans (trans.)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2022 Blixen Prize for Novel of the Year, the MunchChristiansen Debut Award and the Danish Society of Authors’ Talent Prize.This object, a novel, a letter, a self-realisation project, a final reckoning, a murder and a rebirth, a documentation, a work of art, an interactive gravestone… redemption, at lastWhen Glenn is five years old and his younger brother, René, is three, their father commits suicide. In the void left by this incomprehensible loss, the family is shaped by a succession of men who move in and out of their lives.Deconstructing the enormous, destructive power unleashed by suicide, Glenn Bech attempts to find a language for a past that refuses to be remembered. Through fragments of poetry, letters, and home-video transcripts, 'The Fathership' is a brutal and dazzling work of social realism that stretches the definitions of autofiction to breaking point; a sorrowful and furious documentation of a family in crisis and a psychological search for a fatherknown only through his absence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513924. Prototype Publishing. pb. 544 pages. 19.8 x 12.9 cm.\u003cbr\u003enot yet published\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Prototype Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48198117425382,"sku":"9781913513924","price":44.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781913513924.jpg?v=1786690947","url":"https:\/\/manic.com.au\/products\/9781913513924","provider":"Books at Manic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}