{"product_id":"living-realm-jordan-tannahill-9780374621728","title":"The Living Realm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt once an unflinchingly beautiful novel about queer desire, summer days, and casual sex that is also an elegy to friendship, grief, and lovers lost. Startlingly brave and brilliantly told, I devoured each page not sure what to expect next. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Living Realm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e belongs in the firmament of great gay fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e --Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn of John\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile cruising one evening by Teufelssee, a small glacial lake in the Grunewald forest on the edge of Berlin, a man spots a handsome stranger who bears an uncanny resemblance to his former lover. Only, Lukas died nearly thirty years ago. Yet the man cannot shake the feeling that it was really Lukas he saw. As the man spends a long, hot summer by the lake, he continues to encounter Lukas, and then other lost lovers as well. As he attempts to make sense of the strange occurrences and learns more of Teufelssee, he finds himself venturing deeper into the mystery of the forest, leading him to question not just his sanity but the nature of time itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with the lyricism and erudition that have made Jordan Tannahill an internationally celebrated playwright, \u003ci\u003eThe Living Realm\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving, dreamlike novel and an elegy to the ways our lives become entangled with history, the natural world, and those we love.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50155617747137,"sku":"9780374621728","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9780374621728.jpg?v=1777043572","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/living-realm-jordan-tannahill-9780374621728","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}