{"product_id":"thirty-years-john-fraser-9781910301296","title":"Thirty Years","description":"'A lawyer looks for the tiny rock of guilt in a sea of innocence. A lawyer looks for the tiny rock of innocence in a sea of guilt. That's their trade.'\u003cp\u003e John Fraser has been described as 'the most original novelist of our time' by the Whitbread Award Winner and Book Prize nominee John Fuller. In Fraser's latest novel, after a convulsive war that rumbles on for thirty years a disparate group search amongst the metal skeletons, detritus and urban wreckage of a shattered land for a new life, a new start and some kind of normality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The group, comprising therapists and entrepreneurs, including the novel's narrator - a cross between a mercenary and a pacifier - generate between them complicated and sometimes fantastic responses to the challenges facing them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The war continues to reverberate, on an individual basis, but also in the wider context of economic recovery, religious radicalism, and commodity speculation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Death and trauma continue, social and ideological cleavages deepen, but ultimately there is a hint that once the Thirty Years are up, the surviving characters may continue their lives back where it all began.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThirty Years\u003c\/i\u003e has echoes of the Thirty Years War, and of Brecht's \u003ci\u003eMother Courage\u003c\/i\u003e. As Fraser's characters continue to commit crimes, financial and physical, the novel questions and reframes the essential issues of crime and punishment that have concerned humanity from the Bible and Koran, to Shakespeare, Dostoevsky and onwards into the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Fraser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1910301299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781910301296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aesop Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Fraser","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48486271549695,"sku":"9781910301296","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0385af74-f622-4d8c-9bbc-5d3065fc9ebe.jpg?v=1778054652","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thirty-years-john-fraser-9781910301296","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}