{"product_id":"9781250425874","title":"The Mahé Circle (Romans Durs)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA shattering study of restlessness and midlife crisis on the ocean, from an icon of bleak fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrançois Mahé took his family on vacation to Porquerolles, a sun-drenched Côte d’Azur island, only because a friend suggested it. His everyday life as a small-town doctor was sedate and predictable, but contented—until he experienced the strange, hostile energy of Porquerolles, with its intense heat and deafening thrum of cicadas. Now François is consumed with a terrible restlessness, a mutinous longing that settles on an impoverished young girl. He doesn’t love her, he tells himself, or even desire her. Yet for what she represents—danger, newness, a renunciation of passivity—he may just set a match to everything. A pitiless meditation on the irreconcilable lures of belonging and freedom, \u003ci\u003eThe Mahé Circle\u003c\/i\u003e is Georges Simenon at the height of his disturbing powers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43262568267837,"sku":"9781250425874","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781250425874_p0.jpg?v=1781091389","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781250425874","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}