{"product_id":"shadow-without-a-name-by-ignacio-padilla","title":"'Shadow Without a Name' by Ignacio Padilla","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"373\"\u003eA strange, elegant, war-haunted novel about identity, erasure, false papers, railways and  memory. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"373\"\u003eSet around the shadows of WWII and its bureaucratic afterlife, the novel circles questions of names, borders, orders, and responsibility: what happens when a person can be renamed, displaced, absorbed into machinery, or made anonymous by historical force. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePadilla works in that Borges-adjacent register where history becomes a maze and the self is less a stable thing than a document someone may have misfiled, forged, or destroyed. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"373\"\u003eVery much for readers who like their fiction cold, clever, metaphysical, and faintly cursed — the sort of book where trains are never just trains, and paperwork is basically a species of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1010\" data-end=\"1248\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback. Scribner UK. First published in Great Britain 2002; this edition published 2003. Translated by Peter Bush and Anne McLean. Light general handling visible, but clean and solid.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45650672058451,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_21.png?v=1780922581","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/shadow-without-a-name-by-ignacio-padilla","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}