{"product_id":"9781784746131","title":"Foretokens","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she's kept - hoarding, I've learnt, is a mark of the emigrant - across continents and time'. So begins Sarah Howe's extraordinary collection, returning to the riddle of belonging she explored in her award-winning debut, 'Loop of Jade'. At the heart is her own mother's clouded past: abandoned as a baby and taken in, at the turbulent dawn of Communist China, by a woman with her own hidden motives. Now a mother herself, Howe finds herself re-examining this unreliable narrative with fresh sight. Sifting through her own history, the poet asks, how can a new generation transform a shattered inheritance? And what is lost and gained in the pursuit? What unfolds is a personal Babel of voices and identities, and an examination of the contradictory legacies of colonialism, where poems - past and present - act as 'foretokens', omens of what lies ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chatto \u0026 Windus","offers":[{"title":"Sarah \/ Howe","offer_id":56028186214773,"sku":"9781784746131","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9781784746131_4f0cc16c-da71-434f-ba9b-0fe3b0c3a6c9.jpg?v=1763818579","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.live\/products\/9781784746131","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}