{"product_id":"9780141984933","title":"The Promised Land : Poems from Itinerant Life by Andre Naffis-Sahely","description":"While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives. Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job,and money, for the first time in years . . .   __________________________________________________Flitting  from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering  constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood,  from present-day London to North America, Andr? Naffis-Sahely's  bracingly plain-spoken first collection gathers portraits of promised  lands and those who go in search of them: labourers, travellers,  dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. 'Naffis-Sahely's poems usher the reader in to a world of reversals and risk . . . His narratives hold memory to account'DAVID HARSENT\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224861389173,"sku":"9780141984933","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141984933.jpg?v=1762226915","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780141984933","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}