{"product_id":"9781039057142","title":"Universality","description":"\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE \u003ci\u003e• \u003c\/i\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION \u003ci\u003e• Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e’s Best Books of 2025 \u003ci\u003e• NPR\u003c\/i\u003e’s Books We Love \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency: \u003c\/i\u003ea twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power from a writer who “brilliantly illuminates the entrenched inequalities of our time” (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLate one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral exposé raises more questions than it answers, namely: Who wrote it? Why? And how much of it is true? Through a voyeuristic lens, and with a simmering power, \u003ci\u003eUniversality\u003c\/i\u003e focuses in on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe thrilling new novel from one of the most acclaimed and incisive young novelists working today, \u003ci\u003eUniversality\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling, unsettling celebration of the spectacular, appalling force of language. It dares you to look away.","brand":"Natasha Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48218195460148,"sku":"9781039057142","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/0320\/4404\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f2da3698-2b86-4bbf-8e86-20c82107d0f4.jpg?v=1787327312","url":"https:\/\/wanderingalbatrossbooks.com\/products\/9781039057142","provider":"Wandering Albatross Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}