{"product_id":"9781408857281","title":"Chaos of the Senses","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eChaos of the Senses\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Ahlem Mosteghanemi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove always sits in a seat other than the one we were expecting it to, right alongside the place where we expected love to be.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of the Algerian civil war, Hayat is a young novelist trapped in a loveless marriage. While her husband, a high-ranking officer, preoccupies himself with politics, Hayat finds freedom from her highly regimented life in the world of her writing, where she weaves a passionate story for her characters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the line between fiction and reality blurs when she falls for a man who seems to have walked straight out of the pages of her notebook, a man who seduces her, rather than her heroine, with his silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs love on paper becomes a forbidden love lived out in the dark corners of a broken city, Hayat's country convulses with political upheaval. In a place where those who dare to write the truth are made to pay a heavy price, she and her characters will discover that no one can truly be the author of her own destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA powerful story of love, identity, and liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A novel of swirling, towering emotion. Hayat is thrown into confusion when her fictional world collides with reality, swept further into turmoil by her lover and then wrenched back into the gory reality of this nadir for Algeria. Her sensuous reveries slowly twist these disparate strands together in ways which exert a mesmerising pull upon the reader.” —\u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A window into a different world.” —\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail on The Bridges of Constantine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Remarkable, insightful . . . The elegiac quality is present not just in the themes, but also in the astonishingly poetic language throughout . . . I stopped and marvelled every few pages . . . This is one of the richest and most evocative books that I have read all year, I only hope we don't have to wait too long for the two sequels to \u003ci\u003eThe Bridges of Constantine \u003c\/i\u003eto be published in English. The Arab-speaking world shouldn't get to keep Mosteghanemi's novels all to itself.” —\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781408857281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40595432243406,"sku":"9781408857281","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781408857281","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}