{"product_id":"botany-of-madness-by-leon-engler-9781761382260","title":"Botany of Madness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young man is gripped by one fear: that he'll lose his mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith depression, alcoholism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia spread across his family tree, the odds are not in his favour. So, he does what any analytically minded man might do: he tries to calculate the statistical probability of his own madness. What follows is a restless, darkly comic journey—from New York to Paris to Vienna—as he tries to outrun a fate that seems written into his DNA, only to end up working as a psychologist inside the very institution he's spent his life fearing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere, surrounded by stories that echo his own family's, he begins to see with a new, hard-earned clarity. In this bestselling German debut, a potent blend of memoir and fiction, Engler unravels a compassionate tale of reconciliation in which the protagonist is forced to confront a question he has avoided all his life: What is normal?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Irresistible. A book that is at once grave and light, tender and tough, satirical and earnest.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n—Siri Hustvedt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A daring debut novel from a promising new literary voice, Germany's Leon Engler ... Quirky and bittersweet, \u003cem\u003eBotany of Madness\u003c\/em\u003e is just right for Christian Kracht and Katharina Volckmer fans ... phenomenal, darkly comic.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n—Shelf Awareness, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Illuminating ... moves at a roving pace ... \u003cem\u003eBotany of Madness\u003c\/em\u003e is a riveting novel in which a man weighs mental illness with prismatic precision, his work involving scientific classifications, autofiction, and memory.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n—Foreword Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67738862026988,"sku":"9781761382260","price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781761382260-botany-of-madness-1.jpg?v=1792037635","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/botany-of-madness-by-leon-engler-9781761382260","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}