{"product_id":"travelling-companions-by-antoni-jach-9781925760804","title":"Travelling Companions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAntoni Jach takes one of the oldest of storytelling forms, the traveller who shares with us the tales of other travellers, and makes new magic from it. \u003cem\u003eTravelling Companions\u003c\/em\u003e is a joy from start to finish.\u003c\/strong\u003e - John Connolly, author of \u003cem\u003ehe: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eCharlie Parker\u003c\/em\u003e series\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSolitary travellers and a couple encounter Nina, an eloquent storyteller, on their travels through Spain, France, and Italy. She entrances them all with her tales, which prompts her fellow travelling companions to share their own stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA handsome young man from Staten Island, who believes that life forms exist in other galaxies, vows to never work in an office again and travels by container ship to a commune in Italy. A lonely postal worker from Lodz takes home and reads the most interesting love letters, often becoming convinced a relationship needs his intervention, before delivering them the next day. A woman named Pauline calls herself Kim because her surname is Nowak. Depressed about turning forty, she mysteriously disappears from her own birthday party. Told by people on a journey, these are stories rich with unexpected wisdoms of lives in transit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTravelling Companions\u003c\/em\u003e is charming, amusing and philosophical—a wholly original exploration of what it means to honour our strangest dreams and disappointments. It is both a confrontation with, and a sweet diversion from, these, the darkest of times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the tradition of Boccaccio and Chaucer, Jach is an extraordinarily inventive fabulist for late capitalism, seducing his reader into an ever-expansive web of captivating and often hilarious stories from likely and unlikely travelling companions.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Marion May Campbell, author of \u003cem\u003eShadow Thief\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eKonkretion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTravelling Companions\u003c\/em\u003e is a hybrid travelogue of Europe and the strangeness of the human spirit. It reminds us that storytelling is different from 'fiction'—it catches us in a different pulse and breath as we open ourselves to even the most far-fetched and ironic pleasures of the tale. It leads our tourists further than mere travelling: these stories transport them, with folly, irony, humour and endless pleasure.\u003c\/strong\u003e - Philip Salom, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Returns\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Fifth Season\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46846875992300,"sku":"9781925760804","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/17933373482873.jpg?v=1758925860","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/travelling-companions-by-antoni-jach-9781925760804","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}