{"product_id":"avenue-of-mysteries-9781451664171","title":"Avenue of Mysteries","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Irving\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Thoroughly modern, accessibly brainy, hilariously eccentric, and beautifully human.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAvenue of Mysteries\u003c\/i\u003e, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming--specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what \u003ci\u003ehas\u003c\/i\u003e happened, as opposed to what \u003ci\u003ewill, \u003c\/i\u003e Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLupe doesn't know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future--especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow older--most of all, in what we remember and what we dream--we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAvenue of Mysteries \u003c\/i\u003eis the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past--in Mexico--collides with his future.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45126097600663,"sku":"9781451664171","price":1502.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781451664171.webp?v=1767144717","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/avenue-of-mysteries-9781451664171","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}