{"product_id":"on-not-climbing-mountains","title":"On Not Climbing Mountains","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780733644566\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (UK)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hachette Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Performance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFugitive Blue \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a remarkable work of literary fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA woman arrives in Geneva, the first stop in a train journey through the country of her father's birth. She yearns to be outside time - untethered and alone - but she soon becomes immersed in the stories resonating all around her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe visits a museum and stares into the oversized, disco-ball eyes of an insect, unsettled by the intimacy, 'like looking into the facial pores of a lover'. Later, she will tiptoe through the snow to find a portrait of James Baldwin on the window shutter of a chalet, his features rendered in rows of silver staples shot into timber. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe will find traces of Mary Shelley and Fleur Jaeggy; android pioneers in eighteenth-century Neuchatel; Charlie Chaplin, Patricia Highsmith, and striking workers drilling through the earth to create the vast Gotthard Tunnel; Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary as they summit Everest; Lenin and the Dada artists in early twentieth-century Zurich.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Not Climbing Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e is a tender and compelling novel from the internationally acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Performance\u003c\/i\u003e. Beautifully conceived and deftly crafted, it is an exhilarating feat of storytelling, concerned with the fragilities of the natural world, the pains of grief and memory, and the endless reverberations of art. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Not climbing, waiting, connecting. Thomas has written a novel that is truly \u003ci\u003enovel\u003c\/i\u003e - she plays with form and artfully constructs a journey through the mountains of Swit","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41859364094085,"sku":"PR432501","price":48.8,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTG4CCCGRUSN.jpg?v=1789098422","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/on-not-climbing-mountains","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}