{"product_id":"our-heritage-9781039125438","title":"Our Heritage","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Colwell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: FriesenPress\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: FriesenPress\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Animals \u0026amp; Nature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur Heritage is a gesture towards home. The stories and poems in this collection are little slices of life, explorations of family, labour, illness, spirituality, war, and environmentalism, featuring coastal landscapes and a meteorologist's reflections on the natural order of the world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAutumn's come: \u003cbr\u003ea great comb has organised \u003cbr\u003eonce long locks of corn stalks \u003cbr\u003ein neat rows of stubble. \u003cbr\u003eA feast is laid for deer in winter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout this collection, David Colwell's short stories offer flashes of humour, adventure, and mystery. A zoologist undergoes a procedure to cure a disease and wakes up in a new body. A factory worker witnesses his own death. Another factory worker narrowly escapes a toxic fire. Members of a rugby team take refuge from a blizzard in a ramshackle inn, and later wake to their worst nightmares. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt turns heartbreaking and joyful, funny and serious, quietly thoughtful and piercingly honest, Colwell questions what it means to seek the truth and how we understand the intricacies of our realities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FriesenPress","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45161492480151,"sku":"9781039125438","price":981.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781039125438.webp?v=1767666018","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/our-heritage-9781039125438","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}