{"product_id":"the-dark-of-summer-9781448207572","title":"The Dark of Summer","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eric Linklater\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early years of the Second World War an army officer is sent to the Faroe Islands to investigate rumours of a collaboration with the Nazi regime in Norway. What he finds changes lives, not least his own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo one who reads this book will forget the frozen corpse tied to a chair in an icehouse guarded by two drunken seamen, or the raging storm which batters their, ship as they carry the body to Shetland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat's just the beginning. As the tale takes grip, the reader becomes haunted, just as the characters are haunted by a sense of guilt and betrayal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the finest of Linklater's later, deeper, darker novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark of Summer \u003c\/i\u003ecombines national and family histories as it sets out to understand the past, redeem the corrosion of memory and find meaning in a world of divided loyalties.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45086966546583,"sku":"9781448207572","price":1648.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781448207572.webp?v=1767266382","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-dark-of-summer-9781448207572","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}