{"product_id":"little-world-by-josephine-rowe","title":"'Little World' by Josephine Rowe","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"701\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eOne of Australia's most distinctive contemporary writers, Josephine Rowe returns with a novel that feels at once intimate and mythic.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"701\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eSet largely on a remote island in the Pacific, \u003cem data-start=\"247\" data-end=\"261\"\u003eLittle World\u003c\/em\u003e follows a group of lives drawn together by an incorruptible child preserved after death, a grieving caretaker, missionaries, scientists and wanderers, each circling questions of faith, colonial history, ecological ruin and the strange persistence of the sacred. The novel unfolds through fragments, shifting perspectives and accumulations of image, allowing its emotional force to emerge gradually.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"1260\"\u003eRowe's prose is precise, luminous and quietly uncanny, attentive equally to damaged landscapes and damaged bodies. The novel explores colonial extraction, disability, sanctity, environmental collapse and memory without reducing them to allegory, producing a work that is both intellectually rich and deeply affecting. For readers of Olga Tokarczuk, Jenny Erpenbeck, Daisy Hildyard or Claire-Louise Bennett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"1260\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Inc. paperback. Good condition, with staining from spills on first few pages and only light handling wear to the covers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45766601146451,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-07-03T175554.361.png?v=1783065369","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/little-world-by-josephine-rowe","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}