{"product_id":"9781250425874","title":"The Mah\u0026#233; Circle (Romans Durs) (Romans Durs)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA shattering study of restlessness and midlife crisis on the ocean, from an icon of bleak fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancois Mahe took his family on vacation to Porquerolles, a sun-drenched Cote d'Azur island, only because a friend suggested it. His everyday life as a small-town doctor was sedate and predictable, but contented-until he experienced the strange, hostile energy of Porquerolles, with its intense heat and deafening thrum of cicadas. Now Francois is consumed with a terrible restlessness, a mutinous longing that settles on an impoverished young girl. He doesn't love her, he tells himself, or even desire her. Yet for what she represents-danger, newness, a renunciation of passivity-he may just set a match to everything. A pitiless meditation on the irreconcilable lures of belonging and freedom, \u003ci\u003eThe Mahe Circle\u003c\/i\u003e is Georges Simenon at the height of his disturbing powers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48995456057579,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":31.13,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781250425874-1.jpg?v=1783387260","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781250425874","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}