{"product_id":"the-silk-road-9781555978297","title":"The Silk Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literature\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silk Road\u003c\/i\u003e begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought them there--paths on which they still seem to be traveling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silk Road \u003c\/i\u003ealso begins in rivalrous skirmishing for favor, in the protected Eden of childhood, and it ends in the harrowing democracy of mortality, in sickness and loss and death. Kathryn Davis's sleight of hand brings the past, present, and future forward into brilliant coexistence; in an endlessly shifting landscape, her characters make their way through ruptures, grief, and apocalypse, from existence to nonexistence, from embodiment to pure spirit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince the beginning of her extraordinary career, Davis has been fascinated by journeys. Her books have been shaped around road trips, walking tours, hegiras, exiles: and now, in this triumphant novel, a pilgrimage. \u003ci\u003eThe Silk Road\u003c\/i\u003e is her most explicitly allegorical novel and also her most profound vehicle; supple and mesmerizing, the journey here is not undertaken by a single protagonist but by a community of separate souls--a family, a yoga class, a generation. Its revelations are ravishing and desolating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555978297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2018 pg. 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019 pg. 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kathryn Davis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43049603301557,"sku":"9781555978297","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c86c325f-d50f-4062-96ab-0abfa62c24f8.jpg?v=1689691659","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-silk-road-9781555978297","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}