{"product_id":"happiness-paperback-2","title":"Happiness - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAminatta Forna\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Throughout \u003ci\u003eHappiness\u003c\/i\u003e, Forna stops in our tracks . . . Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje's novel \u003ci\u003eAnil's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eHappiness\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cruelty and mercy. But Forna folds this weighty matter into her buoyant creation with a sublimely delicate touch.\"--\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLondon. A fox makes its way across Waterloo Bridge. The distraction causes two pedestrians to collide--Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes, and Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist there to deliver a keynote speech. From this chance encounter, Aminatta Forna's unerring powers of observation show how in the midst of the rush of a great city lie numerous moments of connection. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAttila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma, as he has done many times before; and to contact the daughter of friends, his \"niece\" who hasn't called home in a while. Ama has been swept up in an immigration crackdown, and now her young son Tano is missing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen, by chance, Attila runs into Jean again, she mobilizes the network of rubbish men she uses as volunteer fox spotters. Security guards, hotel doormen, traffic wardens--mainly West African immigrants who work the myriad streets of London--come together to help. As the search for Tano continues, a deepening friendship between Attila and Jean unfolds. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeanwhile a consulting case causes Attila to question the impact of his own ideas on trauma, the values of the society he finds himself in, and a grief of his own. In this delicate tale of love and loss, of cruelty and kindness, Forna asks us to consider the interconnectedness of lives, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures, and the true nature of happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAminatta Forna\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eAncestor Stones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Memory of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Hired Man\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Devil That Danced on the Water\u003c\/i\u003e. Forna's books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e. She is currently the Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.25 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47228867444985,"sku":"9780802129185","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VDJPSG9ZT1hVbFp0eHRZeFVBQ0d4dz09.webp?v=1768296498","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/happiness-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}