{"product_id":"ararat-by-d-m-thomas","title":"'Ararat' by D. M. Thomas","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"873\" data-end=\"1288\"\u003eThe first in D. M. Thomas’s sequence of novels about Soviet Russia, the beginning of the journey into unstable traffic between politics, memory, improvisation, and desire.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"873\" data-end=\"1288\"\u003eHere history is something half-composed, where private obsession and public catastrophe keep bleeding into each other, altering perception. There is something precarious about the novel’s whole method — high-wire, feverish, slightly off-balance in an intentional way. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"873\" data-end=\"1288\"\u003eIt reads like a Cold War dream threaded through with erotic tension, intellectual restlessness, and the sense that both art and history are always one misstep away from collapse. Pretty suited, frankly, to a book called \u003cem data-start=\"1638\" data-end=\"1646\"\u003eArarat, \u003c\/em\u003enamed after Armenia's mountain, the site where Noah's Ark allegedly rested. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1984 Abacus \/ Sphere Books paperback edition, with the novel first published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz in 1983. Nice period copy, in good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44273956814931,"sku":null,"price":11.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-25T092706.213.png?v=1774391239","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/ararat-by-d-m-thomas","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}