{"product_id":"the-world-is-badly-made-9798231337217","title":"The World Is Badly Made","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Thomas Corfield\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Panda Books Australia\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Panda Books Australia\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Social Themes - Bullying\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn a world where cats and dogs act like people, absurdity reigns supreme.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBedlam threatens to engulf the world-unless Oscar can stop it, which he's willing to try, provided he has an enormous breakfast first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Tremblees, Arabesque's ambitious aide d'camp, stumbles across a translation of an ancient language revealing the existence of a fabled stone, he vows to find it for greed and vengeance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a dead dog stuck to a car bonnet, some burst luggage, a blind bus driver and an enormous number of olives, Oscar Teabag-Dooven, his reluctant colleague Meesha and the Tieress of Arabesque race to prevent the Tremblees from plunging the world back into the Era of Bedlam, a terrifying chaos that plagued the land a thousand years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing stolen hearses, demolished caf�s and a mad dash across Arabesque, this ludicrous journey pits intuition against ambition, where only the wildest plans stand a chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWelcome to the New Fable fiction genre, where fluffy just got dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Corfield blurs the boundary between rubbish and garbage, and does justice to neither.\" - Aiden White, Barrington Points Lighthouse Keeper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The plot is only held together by the book's tangled and convoluted sentences.\" - Tiffany Parlek, Mortal Goddess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A two-in-the-morning page turner, but only because each one's so hard to get through.\" - Pannel Norbit, Curator of Exotic Fungal Infections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46477638140055,"sku":"9798231337217","price":2473.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798231337217.jpg?v=1766290036","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-world-is-badly-made-9798231337217","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}