{"product_id":"surrender-on-demand-nadia-de-vries-9798260200469","title":"Surrender on Demand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Get ready to fall in love with De Vries's playful pen and unrelenting view of mankind. \u003ci\u003eSurrender on Demand \u003c\/i\u003eis gorgeous and strange and somehow familiarly human, Dickens in a sharp modern jacket.\" --Yael van der Wouden, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003eThe Safekeep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA biting tale about class and destiny from the Netherlands--told through an endearing antihero named Shellfish.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe all went to the same school, which was referred to as a \"special\" school. Not because we were special ourselves but because the system had deemed us useless . . . In other words, we were being prepared for a life of service. In that respect, we suffered a similar fate. And I detest fate.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShellfish grows up in a coastal village polluted by the local steel plant. The factory or the distribution center: these are the choices ahead. Both are work in places without windows, dictated by the clock. But Shellfish dreams of a different future: to no longer serve, but be a master. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWill Shellfish succeed in breaking free? If we cannot outgrow the circumstances we were born in, does that mean we've failed at life? \u003ci\u003eSurrender on Demand\u003c\/i\u003e is about the difference between people who get to choose their future and those who have to suffer their fate. About villagers and day-trippers. About casual violence. And about seagulls. A carnivalesque, satirical, intense, big, small novel about class and destiny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nadia de Vries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798260200469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.51w x 1.00d","brand":"Nadia de Vries","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49084145729791,"sku":"9798260200469","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/surrender-on-demand-nadia-de-vries-9798260200469","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}