{"product_id":"on-earth-as-it-is-in-heaven","title":"On Earth as It Is in Heaven","description":"\u003ci\u003eThere are two of them in the boxing ring.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOne weighs 145 pounds, stands 5 foot 5, and is twenty-six years old.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe other one? Nobody knows his weight and it doesn't matter how tall he is, he'll grow.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNo one has bandaged his wrists, he's wearing boxing gloves, he's bouncing on his toes in the ring.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHe's nine years old.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A dark, gripping coming-of-age tale that explores friendship and family, love and betrayal, masculinity and violence.\u003cbr\u003e In the early 1980s Mafia gang wars are tearing the precariously stitched-together city of Palermo apart. A fatherless nine-year-old boy climbs into a boxing ring to face his first opponent.\u003cbr\u003e Davide Enia's sweeping multigenerational saga reaches back to World War II and forward to talented young David 's quest to become a champion boxer for his country-a feat that has eluded the other men in his family.\u003cbr\u003e A sensation when published in Italy in 2012, \u003ci\u003eOn Earth as It Is in Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an intimate account of Sicilian life and devastatingly universal.\u003cbr\u003e Translated by Antony Shugaar.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Davide Enia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516727918653,"sku":null,"price":28.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781922079374.jpg?v=1787568829","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/on-earth-as-it-is-in-heaven","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}