{"product_id":"the-lower-river","title":"The Lower River","description":"\u003cp\u003eEllis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, and he is on his own, he realizes that there is one place for him to go: back to his village in Malawi, on the remote Lower River, where he can be happy again. \u003cbr\u003eArriving at the dusty village, he finds it transformed: the school he built is a ruin, the church and clinic are gone, and poverty and apathy have set in among the people. They remember him--the White Man with no fear of snakes--and welcome him. But is his new life, his journey back, an escape or a trap? \u003cbr\u003eInterweaving memory and desire, hope and despair, salvation and damnation, this is a hypnotic, compelling, and brilliant return to a terrain about which no one has ever written better than Theroux. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/paul-theroux-books\"\u003ePaul Theroux\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hamish Hamilton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780241145456\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hamish Hamilton","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £3.58","offer_id":47909727240369,"sku":"SB-0241145457-C4","price":3.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0241145457.jpg?v=1789248489","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-lower-river","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}