{"product_id":"9781529920635","title":"The Pole and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this beautifully written and compulsively readable story of love and the mutability of human relationships, pianist Witold's infatuation with Beatriz will change them both. A Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times Book of the Year‘Confirms Coetzee as one of the great writers of fiction’ ObserverAfter his piano recital in Barcelona, Witold Walczykiewicz – white-haired virtuoso, controversial interpreter of Chopin – becomes infatuated with Beatriz, his designated companion at dinner. Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, is at first unmoved. But as the stranger’s letters, music, and poetry flood into her home, a dream of love begins that surprises them both. ‘One of the world’s most original writers… He is still breaking new ground at the same time as revealing a funny side’ i‘His prose, apparently simple, is so perfected at every turn that it is moving to read, line after line’ Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52905359671605,"sku":"EB_LI0700_N02-02_AD","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9781529920635-1.jpg?v=1789406279","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/ar\/products\/9781529920635","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}