{"product_id":"country-people","title":"Country People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGOOD MORNING AMERICA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBOOK CLUB PICK *\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBESTSELLER * A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont)-a \"witty and gorgeous\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason, the bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Charming . . . a prescription for summer amusement that takes immediate effect . . . There's so much fine, freewheeling observation and pillowy erudition here, it's tempting just to sink in.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut Miles is a man of many enthusiasms, one who possesses, in Kate's words, a great capacity \"to fall in with anyone, anywhere.\" And no sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales, from a ghostly tree surgeon to a scythe-mad biochemist, from a Shakespearean temptress to a photographer of snowflakes obsessed with chronicling, on thousands of index cards, the world's delusions in an Inventory of Wrong Ideas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe new friends, the enchanted woods, the histories: sure, no PhD, but all good fun. Until Miles stumbles upon a bizarre-perhaps ridiculous-local legend, which, he soon suspects, might not be just a legend after all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoyous, absurd, and life-affirming, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCountry People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood, the nature of belief and the power of stories, and the ways in which we find connection in an increasingly fragmented world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\/pages\u003c\/strong\u003e: paperback \/ 320 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9798217199037\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Random House\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear\u003c\/strong\u003e: 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Mason","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54495023006029,"sku":"9798217199037","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0016\/9325\/3689\/files\/9798217199037.jpg?v=1786454481","url":"https:\/\/knygynas.biz\/products\/country-people","provider":"Knygynas eureka!","version":"1.0","type":"link"}