{"product_id":"2026200013737-secondhand-friday-or-the-other-island","title":"Friday Or The Other Island","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when civilisation's most cherished myths are stripped away and a man is left alone with the raw, indifferent earth? Friday or the Other Island reimagines the tale of Robinson Crusoe — shipwrecked on a remote island — not as a triumph of European rationalism, but as a profound unravelling of it. Michel Tournier's celebrated retelling chronicles Crusoe's psychological disintegration and eventual spiritual rebirth, tracing his transformation from a coloniser imposing order upon the wilderness to a man humbled and ultimately liberated by it. The arrival of Friday, far from being a simple rescue of a savage, inverts every assumption of power, knowledge, and civilised superiority.\n\nTournier, one of the towering figures of twentieth-century French literature, writes with a philosopher's precision and a poet's grace — unsurprising, given his deep engagement with the ideas of Sartre and Bachelard. Originally published in France as Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique, the novel won the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1967 and stands as one of the most intellectually daring works of postmodern fiction. Beneath its deceptively sunlit island setting lies a radical interrogation of colonialism, identity, and what it truly means to be human — a question Tournier leaves thrillingly, disturbingly open.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160899887323,"sku":"2026200013737-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b11f0e0f-4491-4615-9285-1228882f031a.png?v=1787188317","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013737-secondhand-friday-or-the-other-island","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}