{"product_id":"mao-ii-2","title":"Mao II","description":"Winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Bill enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, Bill''s dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott''s lover – and Bill''s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, Mao II explores a world in which the novelist''s power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and gunmen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57068286411087,"sku":"9781529092110","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/mao-ii-2","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}