{"product_id":"your-absence-is-darkness-9781771965811","title":"Your Absence Is Darkness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he's there or how he arrived. When a local woman offers to reunite him with her sister, he realizes he's lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well: he doesn't recognize either woman, and as their stories unfold, he's plunged into a history spanning centuries and lives: a city girl drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze; a pastor who writes to dead poets and falls in love with a stranger from afar; a woman who must abandon her son to save her family; a musician plagued by cosmic loneliness; and an alcoholic transfixed by the night sky. Faced with the violence of destiny and the effects of choices, made and avoided, that cascade between lives, each discovers the cost of happiness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn incandescent romance about the misfortune of mortality and the strange salve of time, \u003ci\u003eYour Absence is Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding story of death, desire, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771965811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"J\u0026#243;n Kalman Stef\u0026#225;nsson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43471230927029,"sku":"9781771965811","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5cc2fff4-9d7e-4718-b33a-8076897aa7f6.jpg?v=1704824434","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/your-absence-is-darkness-9781771965811","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}