{"product_id":"night-watch-paperback","title":"Night Watch (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A tour de force - breathtaking in both its scope and intensity' TAYARI JONES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Shatteringly particular and audaciously universal' ALICE RANDALL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Excellent... Phillips has brought a little more of this foundational American episode into the light' GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful, mournful... Phillips's artistic conscience won't let her flinch from this truth, but her generous heart won't let it be the last word' WASHINGTON POST\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year, arrive at the Trans-Allegh eny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war vet eran who has forced himself into their lives. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their back story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee's father, who left for the war and never returned. Meanwhile in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility-the mystery behind the man they call the Night Watch; the child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEpic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds, and a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jayne Anne Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964256743602,"sku":"9780349727813","price":295.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/423032_6709ccd40f3e08.21678931_9780349727813.jpg?v=1733829131","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/night-watch-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}