{"product_id":"my-father-the-dog","title":"My Father the Dog","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Father The Dog\u003c\/i\u003e\n is a haunting sequence of haiku inspired by real killings in an \nisolated mountain village in Japan. After decades working in the city, a\n man returns to his childhood home to care for his parents and their \nsmall farm. When they die, grief, rural isolation, and mounting tensions\n with neighbours lead to his slow unravelling: a threatening haiku \nposted on a shed wall, the adoption of two dogs, and the growing belief \nthat one dog is the reincarnation of his father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStructured in three sections echoing the three lines of a haiku, the \nbook moves from the man’s troubled homecoming to the aftermath of the \nkillings, and finally to the fugitive’s hallucinatory experience hiding \nin the forest awaiting capture. By placing extreme violence within a \nform associated with restraint and natural beauty, \u003ci\u003eMy Father The Dog\u003c\/i\u003e creates a disturbing formal tension, producing a work that is spare, precise, and deeply unsettling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57261096108376,"sku":"9781800175747","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781800175747.jpg?v=1781048718","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/my-father-the-dog","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}