{"product_id":"beware-of-pity-copy","title":"Event Horizon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Singularity, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ea saga of one girl's resistance and exile in the stars and soil of empire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeventeen-year-old Milde is from the Outskirts, a place beyond the mountains where the dirt is corpse-rich and mothers and daughters make their living banished from society—without rights, access to care, or legal status. Simmering under the surface of their day-to-day survival is a desire for change—and one day, Milde and her friends act on it, setting fire to government buildings in the city that has rejected them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Milde is framed as the instigator of the uprising, she is arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and eventually presented with a final choice: to be executed publicly or to be launched into space, into a black hole called the Mass, for an experiment. Milde chooses the Mass.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEvent Horizon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an exquisite existential novel, dark as deep space, woven with reflection on oppression, solidarity, trauma, and loss. With a completely unique voice, \u003cstrong\u003eBalsam Karam \u003c\/strong\u003ewrites about the swirl of hope and despair in the lives of the marginalized and a young woman’s unwavering belief in a better world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Times Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45205298872520,"sku":"TIMES-0926-178","price":103.5,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/tintabudi.com\/products\/beware-of-pity-copy","provider":"Tintabudi Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}