{"product_id":"english-days-in-arabia-roderick-simcox-9798391662297","title":"English Days in Arabia: Tales To Tease The Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a coma, in a tiny Moroccan hospital, a very dear but estranged brother needs help. Perhaps stories told at his bedside will somehow stimulate and wake him. Each day a new story is told, each one looking hard at something which has fascinated the patient in the past. But everything must entertain and stimulate, and therefore - the consequences of seeing into the future becomes a story about birds on a spring morning; concern about the nature of the Human Will becomes a story about the reincarnation of Robert Hooke of the Royal Society; thoughts about mortality become a story about the collapse of a giant machine; possibilities in the perception of reality become a light-hearted story about mice in tiny hob nail boots; questions about mental illness become a story about entrapment in a dilapidated hotel; the value of ambition becomes a story about a tragic young music student; management of the end of life becomes a story about affection between the elderly Ronald and Judith; and thoughts on the possibility of time travel take the form of a story about a disconcerting schoolfriend Eggy and his crazy invention. Eventually, after a tale about darkness sought by Steggy, a tiny Negev Desert spider, the patient begins to recover. He wakes, reveals what has happened to him, and the estranged brothers are re-united.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roderick Simcox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798391662297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d","brand":"Roderick Simcox","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48851469402367,"sku":"9798391662297","price":9.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/english-days-in-arabia-roderick-simcox-9798391662297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}