{"product_id":"the-promised-land-poems-from-itinerant-life","title":"Promised Land","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhile half the world swept west,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewe trickled eastward, one by one,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003esingle-file, like fugitives. Next stop:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbu Dhabi, where my father had\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e a job,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand money, for the first time \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ein years\u003c\/i\u003e . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e__________________________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlitting  from the mud-soaked floors of Venice to the glittering, towering  constructions of the Abu Dhabi of his childhood and early adulthood,  from present-day London to North America, André Naffis-Sahely's  bracingly plain-spoken first collection gathers portraits of promised  lands and those who go in search of them: labourers, travellers,  dreamers; the hopeful and the dispossessed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Naffis-Sahely's poems usher the reader in to a world of reversals and risk . . . His narratives hold memory to account'\u003cbr\u003eDAVID HARSENT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32085512618067,"sku":"","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141984933.jpg?v=1764423038","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-promised-land-poems-from-itinerant-life","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}