{"product_id":"the-elements-by-john-boyne-9780857528889","title":"The Elements","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoyne's most ambitious work yet, \u003cem\u003eThe Elements\u003c\/em\u003e 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 conceptions of who we are and what made us that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46629121327340,"sku":"9780857528889","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780857528889.jpg?v=1751940744","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-elements-by-john-boyne-9780857528889","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}