{"product_id":"book-dcgk","title":"The Circus","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA real-life vanishing act leaves one man looking for his missing friend in this\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eKafkaesque new novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Room\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Invoice.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e• \u003ci\u003eBookRiot \u003c\/i\u003e• The A.V. Club • Gizmodo\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe gentle, off-beat narrator of\u003ci\u003e The Circus \u003c\/i\u003eis perfectly content with his quiet life. By day he works in a bakery, and by night he obsessively organizes and reorganizes his record collection: it’s all just the way he likes it. But when his childhood friend Magnus comes calling out of the blue, the contours of our narrator’s familiar world begin to shift. On a visit to the circus together, Magnus volunteers to participate in the magician’s disappearing act, and midway through the routine he vanishes. Is this part of the act? What’s happened to Magnus? And who is it calling on the phone in the dead of night, breathing into the receiver, but never saying a word?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSmart, sharply unsettling, and with its sleight of hand exquisitely kept,\u003ci\u003e The Circus\u003c\/i\u003e is a funhouse mirror of a read—one that ingeniously reveals the way we see ourselves and the stories we tell.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49328707633456,"sku":"BDdcgk","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/411390-dcgk-Square.jpg?v=1733723506","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dcgk","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}