{"product_id":"the-strangers","title":"The Strangers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a wildlife camera in the back garden of her parents’ home.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt captures the first image of a strange new animal. Low to the ground, about the size of a badger, flat face, long trunk-like nose. Suddenly these ‘mimmoths’ are as common as foxes or dogs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd no one knows where they’ve come from. As Alderman negotiates the territory of grief – a place with its own logic and rhythms – the mimmoths spread. From the UK east and west, to the United States, to Russia, to India.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey seem harmless, but oddly intelligent. They cannot be captured, they will not take food from humans, they have their own purposes. Alderman cannot shake the feeling that she has a particular connection to the creatures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOr is she just succumbing to ‘mimmoth psychosis’? As the impact of the mimmoths increases, she is pulled into the cross currents of conspiracy theories and global power struggles. Have her deeply personal forms of mourning lent recent events a surreal air, or is our reality changing drastically and irrevocably?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the award-winning author of the international bestseller, The Power, The Strangers is a thrillingly original and devastatingly moving novel that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human. It’s like nothing you’ll have read before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naomi Alderman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62648104583555,"sku":"9780241777664","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/thestrangers.png?v=1789640412","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.com\/products\/the-strangers","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}