{"product_id":"a-cow-gives-birth-at-night","title":"A Cow Gives Birth at Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eCrossing\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Award, a piercing, candid novel about a man haunted by the violence of his past and a family ruptured by the war that ravaged their homeland, for readers of Douglas Stuart, Jenny Erpenbeck, Ocean Vuong, and Garth Greenwell.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1996: a boy raised in Finland spends the summer at his grandfather’s house in Kosovo, a time that will mark him for the rest of his life, isolating him from his family and ensconcing him in a life of the mind, the complex escape of imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecades later, having grown into adulthood and built a career as a celebrated author, he travels with his mother again to Kosovo, a country that has since been savaged by war, where fear still guides people’s everyday lives. The journey forces him to delve into a past both real and imagined, into a mire of trauma and illness. Can memories be trusted? What can be forgiven? And what demands revenge? His questions spiral through his every interaction—with his relatives, with a family in need, with a seemingly duplicitous community leader—until he’s confronted with the ultimate, the most suffocating question of all: what will it take to survive history?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStaggering in both its psychological acuity and tour-de-force prose, \u003ci\u003eA Cow Gives Birth at Night\u003c\/i\u003e shows us what it is to live a life without safety. to be drawn towards danger, and the haunting truths of what can happen in a family after the lights have been turned off.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499188887925,"sku":"9780593702338","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780593702338.jpg?v=1786694504","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/a-cow-gives-birth-at-night","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}