{"product_id":"from-the-mouth-of-the-sj-n-9780374159030","title":"From the Mouth of the Whale","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Mouth of the Whale \u003c\/i\u003eis an Icelandic saga for the modern age. The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSj introduces us to Jas P疝mason, a poet and self-taught healer, banished to a barren island for heretical conduct, as he recalls his gift for curing female maladies, his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snj畴jl coast, the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers, and the deaths of three of his children. P疝mason's story echoes across centuries and cultures, an epic tale that makes us see the world anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sj\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374159033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374159030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.38h x 5.10w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/10\/3013 pg. 12","brand":"Sj","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045015023871,"sku":"9780374159030","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_690fd205-afcb-42cd-8f5d-0077ae8daec4.jpg?v=1684976227","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-the-mouth-of-the-sj-n-9780374159030","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}