{"product_id":"murderer-1","title":"Murderer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe portrait of a dangerous and unknowable lost soul, by \"a chronicler nonpareil of 20th-century Guyanese life.\" (Margaret Busby, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuiet, reserved, painfully shy, Galton Flood arrives in the Guyanese township of Linden haunted by the death of his domineering mother. There he meets Gemma Burrowes, a vipant young woman eager to escape the confines of her father's boarding house. They marry and make a home in the anonymous sprawl of Georgetown, Galton's native city, where Gemma starts to realize that there is something very wrong with this match, and with Galton himself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn its first publication in 1978, \u003ci\u003eThe Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e was greeted as a landmark in Caribbean literature, acclaimed both for its subtle portrayal of a disturbed anti-hero and for revealing with \"uncanny precision . . . the discrepancy between the personal power of a woman within the family and her lack of influence outside it\" (Homi Bhabha, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284018839604,"sku":"9781946022295","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/8638\/5972\/files\/imageloader_5930c34a-28b1-49bc-83ef-a9e9c6212931.jpg?v=1764153600","url":"https:\/\/worldcaribbeanbooks.com\/products\/murderer-1","provider":"World Caribbean Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}