{"product_id":"the-pine-islands","title":"The Pine Islands","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Gilbert Silvester, a journeyman lecturer on beard fashions in film, awakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees - immediately, irrationally, inexplicably - for Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Basho. Suddenly, from Gilbert's directionless crisis there emerges a purpose: a pilgrimage in the footsteps of the poet to see the moon rise over the pine islands of Matsushima.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFalling into step with another pilgrim - a young Japanese student called Yosa, clutching a copy of The Complete Manual of Suicide - Gilbert travels with Yosa across Basho's disappearing Japan, one in search of his perfect ending and the other the new beginning that will give his life meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Pine Islands is a serene, playful, profoundly moving story of the transformations we seek and the ones we find along the way.\u003cbr\u003e\n Dimensions:23 x 210  \u003cbr\u003e\n Author: Marion Poschmann \u003cbr\u003e\n ISBN: 9781788160919 \u003cbr\u003e\n Format:  \u003cbr\u003e\n Pages 192\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44768333529241,"sku":"5RG9781788160919","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/ddbfd52201f571c33ba377897111dc20.jpg?v=1724236638","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/the-pine-islands","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}