{"product_id":"9781443467759_the-ones-we-loved","title":"The Ones We Loved","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A haunting, unforgettable story about a shattered girl and a shattered boy rebuilding their lives on the thinnest reeds of hope.\" — Lawrence Hill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e “If Toni Morrison is a language, Tarisai Ngangura speaks it as well as any novelist writing today. . . .A magnificent novel.” — Donna Bailey Nurse \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA love story of two young people who must surrender to heartache before claiming the peace they seek, from a debut author of unusual power and grace \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a bus moving across a rural landscape, from town to dusty town, two young people are escaping with their lives. She has committed a crime for which there will be retribution. He is staggering from a devastating discovery. These two will find each other and attempt a new way forward, with nothing to hold on to except hope. But the talons of the past have dug deep, and the wounds have not yet healed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeamlessly transitioning between past lives and present realities,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ones We Loved\u003c\/em\u003e tenderly weaves both myth and memory into an account of two people desperate for connection and yearning for a place to belong. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in the rhythms of oral retellings practiced by Zimbabwe’s Shona ethnic group, where the soundscape of a \u003cem\u003engano\u003c\/em\u003e (story)—its melodies, pauses, lifts and stops—creates a call-and-response with the audience, \u003cem\u003eThe Ones We Loved\u003c\/em\u003e is about the homes we leave behind, the lonely voices that find us and the painful consequences of experiencing a love that has never known how to let go.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tarisai Ngangura","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46963011977365,"sku":"9781443467759","price":8.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781443467759_4abbe4eb-e908-4718-9066-58255366c75c.jpg?v=1776889845","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781443467759_the-ones-we-loved","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}