{"product_id":"red-flour-9781945335754","title":"Red Flour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Palestinian novel about witnessing a massacre, and worse still, surviving it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResurrected in Heaven, a bewildered survivor of a massacre flashes back to harrowing events unfolding in an unnamed besieged town, a camp ravished by hunger and swollen with displaced people and starving children, where a hopeful euphoria building at a breadline culminates in a tragedy and bleak dissolution. Centered on the theme of hunger, the essence of bread, and the magic of flour in a place on the brink of mass starvation, \u003ci\u003eRed Flour\u003c\/i\u003e is essentially a love story that takes place in a breadline. “But can love blossom in a place ravished by hunger?” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguishing under an unending siege and constant bombardment, the camp soon dwindles into a necropolis where bone-thin children wither away in the arms of hapless parents, dying a most agonizing death, before being loaded hurriedly into waiting wagons and buried in haste. And beyond starvation a flour massacre unfolds, leading to the protagonist’s cry: “Even our bread is massacred, murdered before it’s leavened.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a compelling story of death and survival, of bread and roses, in a world in which humanity is at a brink.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seraj Assi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48311056761083,"sku":"9781945335754","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/unnamed_928b4d76-5dea-4a18-a055-ac911a2f4f6e.jpg?v=1776877073","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/red-flour-9781945335754","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}