{"product_id":"you-know-the-sun-bothers-me","title":"You Know The Sun Bothers Me","description":"\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLove, lust, adulthood and an ancient Fiat in one long hot Maltese summer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSchool’s out for summer, and for our unnamed narrator, that means three months away from his physics high school students to tinker with his ancient Fiat 131 and fret about his all-consuming obsession: Sarah, a tempestuous artist he met online. They sleep together, they text obsessively, but as July’s barbecues and boat trips segue into August’s festi, their intimate moments always reset into platonic disappointment, and she increasingly ghosts him in favour of an ever-changing group of new besties.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA sensation on its home island, this book gives poignant voice to a regular guy in his early thirties, trying to get a grip on love, life and growing up, and it paints a high-octane portrait of what it means to live in the hedonistic, overcrowded, workaholic, claustrophobic, contradictory mind-blast that is Malta.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou Know The Sun Bothers Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was shortlisted for the 2023 National Book Prize and the author won Malta’s National Book Prize for Best emerging Author in 2024. It is the winner of a PEN Translates award.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ryan Falzon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57056947831162,"sku":null,"price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/6778\/8068\/files\/77F7BFC1-F05E-46EA-8B5A-99499F3F6193.jpg?v=1783692778","url":"https:\/\/raremags.co.uk\/products\/you-know-the-sun-bothers-me","provider":"Rare Mags","version":"1.0","type":"link"}