{"product_id":"9781784746179","title":"HOMEBOUND","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A joy -- at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human.... it kept me up all night!' \u003cb\u003eMADELINE MILLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A sparkling novel, a work of joyous and serious invention' \u003cb\u003eKALIANE BRADLEY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A big, bold, ecstatic world -- full of heart and wonder' \u003cb\u003eRUTH OZEKI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix hundred years. Five interlocking lives. One computer game.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the many paths that can lead us home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt s 1983 and Becks can t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. But for now she has work to do: her programmer uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Becks is coding will outlast her by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a desperate pirate captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomebound\u003c\/i\u003e is a coming out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. As it slips through time, loss, creativity, found family, it journeys deep into humanity s future and capacity for love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49657274794232,"sku":"EB_LI0700_E02-11_SYDNEY","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781784746179","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}