{"product_id":"the-elements","title":"The Elements","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom bestselling author John Boyne comes a gripping and profound exploration of responsibility, guilt, blame, trauma, and our capacity for redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman life is governed by the elements - water, earth, fire and air. They are fundamental to our existence. They sustain us, but they also challenge us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Elements, John Boyne has created a vivid kaleidoscope to reflect that contradiction- a quartet of intertwined narratives, each providing a different perspective on cause and effect from the points of view of the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator and the victim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a mother on the run from her past, to a young football star on trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and finally a father on a transformative journey with his son, the four strands weave together to form a tapestry of intersecting lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoyne's most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving examination of the fault lines inherent to human experience. In crisp, spellbinding prose, he navigates a complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty, at every step challenging us to confront our own perceptions of who we are and what made us that way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40848714530880,"sku":"9780857528889","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/0876\/8576\/files\/the-elements-3668421.jpg?v=1768327393","url":"https:\/\/thepageandprose.co.nz\/products\/the-elements","provider":"The Page and Prose Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}