{"product_id":"the-paper-lantern-isbn-9781474622035","title":"The Paper Lantern","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen future generations come to ask themselves when England lost it and what it lost, they will pick up \u003ci\u003eThe Paper Lantern\u003c\/i\u003e' \u003cb\u003eMichael Hofmann, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTLS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A remarkable achievement in a book that feels at once timely and deeply considered' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A book that speaks powerfully about what it is to be English and about the impact of coronavirus on our national psyche' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Will Burns is the new Defoe' \u003cb\u003eAdelle Stripe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in a shuttered pub - The Paper Lantern - in a village in the very middle of the country adjacent to the Prime Minister's Chequers Estate, an unnamed narrator embarks on a series of walks in the Chiltern Hills. As he charts and interrogates the shifts in mood and understanding that have defined a transformative period in his own history and that of the surrounding area, he reveals a past scarred with trauma and a present lacking compass. Traversing local raves in secret valleys, to climate change and capitalism, \u003ci\u003eThe Paper Lantern \u003c\/i\u003ecreates a tangible, lived-in complicated rendering of a place, at the moment when the very sense of place itself is being questioned.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44895052464357,"sku":"NP9781474622035","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_f60da14b-2c05-4d1f-9c44-03e81e311cab.jpg?v=1773106618","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-paper-lantern-isbn-9781474622035","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}