{"product_id":"2026200006682-secondhand-childs-play-the-bread-of-time-to-come","title":"Child's Play: The Bread Of Time To Come","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA luminous work of literary fiction by one of Australia's most celebrated writers, Child's Play: The Bread of Time to Come presents two distinct novellas bound together by Malouf's signature lyrical intensity and preoccupation with identity, memory, and the forces that shape a life. The first novella, Child's Play, chronicles the inner world of a young assassin as he meticulously plans the murder of a famous author, rendering the act of political violence with chilling psychological precision and a detached, almost aesthetic calm. The second, The Bread of Time to Come, transports readers to nineteenth-century Australia, following a German immigrant as he carves out an existence on the raw colonial frontier, illustrating how landscape and isolation transform the human spirit. Together, the two works showcase Malouf's extraordinary gift for prose that is at once spare and richly evocative, turning intimate personal narratives into meditations on civilization, art, and what it means to belong to a place or a moment in time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810610524379,"sku":"2026200006682-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/49b58159-99ed-4f3a-8e8c-e407f6c9d435.png?v=1779805921","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200006682-secondhand-childs-play-the-bread-of-time-to-come","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}