{"product_id":"cyclist-paperback","title":"The Cyclist - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eViken Berberian\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe controversial novel about food, love, and terrorism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Somewhere in the Middle East, an aspiring terrorist has been entrusted with a mission that will reverberate around the world: to deliver a bomb to a hotel in Beirut, where the detonation will destroy hundreds of innocent lives. If he remains true to his cause, he will bring about his own death. Yet life holds such tantalizing delights: food (his secret vice), the heady pleasures of bicycle racing, the joys of unexpected love. As the days count down to the final, chilling moment of reckoning, this angst-ridden gourmand ponders his existential quandary -- with horrifying and hilarious results. \u003cbr\u003e A slyly subversive black comedy about a food-fixated terrorist who dreams of liberation through a world of eroticism and sensuality, \u003ci\u003eThe Cyclist\u003c\/i\u003e combines absurdist humor and edgy lyricism to tell a provocative, page-turning tale of individual freedom and political violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eViken Berberian\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cyclist.\u003c\/i\u003e He has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times.\u003c\/i\u003e For the past five years he has lived and worked in Manhattan, Paris and Marseille\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.02 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131943227527,"sku":"9780743249393","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/8c60c2afc09f5df11cf193265c9f19b4.webp?v=1732622577","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/cyclist-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}