{"product_id":"believers-2","title":"Believers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZoë Heller's darkly comic third novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Believers\u003c\/i\u003e explores a family pushed to its limits.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radial lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling secret themselves, but for the meantime, they are trying tot cope with their own dilemmas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosa, a disillusioned revolutionary, is grappling with a new found attachment to Orthodox Judaism. Karla, an unhappily married social worker, is falling in love with an unlikely suitor at the hospital where she works. Adopted brother Lenny is back on drugs again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to decide what - if anything - they still believe in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Profoundly satisfying. No other novel would readily stand in its stead . . . pulses with thematic and intellectual content . . . Heller's prose is clean, warm and smart'  Lionel Shriver, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Astonishingly well-observed and stunningly written, a subtle, funny family farce . . . in its thundering confidence, \u003ci\u003eThe Believers\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of a writer at the top of her game'  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZoë Heller is the author of three novels, \u003ci\u003eEverything You Know,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes on a Scandal,\u003c\/i\u003e which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and \u003ci\u003eThe Believers\u003c\/i\u003e. The 2006 film adaptation of \u003ci\u003eNotes on a Scandal\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, received four Oscar nominations. She lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226817712472,"sku":"9780141024677","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141024677_648978c5-4f87-4b89-8d45-30c1de21c49c.jpg?v=1764816332","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/believers-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}