{"product_id":"an-absence-of-cousins-a-novel","title":"An Absence of Cousins: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first UK publication of Lore Segal's Pulitzer-finalist novel, following on from her acclaimed Ladies' Lunch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlka Weisz is in need not just of friends but 'elective cousins'. She has left her home in New York to accept a junior teaching post at the prestigious Concordance Institute, a liberal college in bucolic Connecticut. But how can she, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, find a new set to belong to - a surrogate family? Might the Shakespeares - the institute's director and his wry, acerbic wife - hold the key?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these interlinked New Yorker stories, Lore Segal evokes the comic melancholy of the outsider and the ineffectual ambitions of a progressive, predominantly WASP-ish institution. Tragedy and loss haunt characters as they plan an academic symposium on genocide, while their privileged lives contrast starkly with those on a derelict housing project next door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes the acclaimed New Yorker podcast story, \"The Reverse Bug\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRHD Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129569857759,"sku":"9781914502101","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781914502101.jpg?v=1744076795","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/an-absence-of-cousins-a-novel","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}