{"product_id":"without-blood-by-alessandro-baricco","title":"'Without Blood' by Alessandro Baricco","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"233\" data-end=\"397\"\u003eIt opens with a sudden, intimate violence: a family executed, a house emptied. One child survives — spared by a man who should have killed her.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"399\" data-end=\"757\"\u003eMany years later, that child, now a woman, seeks him out. The past is revisited obliquely, through fragments and hesitation, as both characters are forced to reckon with what survival has made of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"759\" data-end=\"1161\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"827\" data-end=\"842\"\u003eWithout Blood\u003c\/em\u003e is a brief but piercing meditation on damage and mercy, on the afterlife of violence. Ann Goldstein’s lucid translation preserves the novel’s delicate precision, allowing its emotional weight to accumulate quietly — and linger long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition paperback. Worn, but inside spotless. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43448832196691,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/7caf1898-7659-4a73-9612-6ba0cbb4c786.jpg?v=1768949362","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/without-blood-by-alessandro-baricco","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}