{"product_id":"the-beaded-curtain","title":"The Beaded Curtain","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePowerful examination of the writer as witness\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart autobiography, part memoir, part quest, lauded writer Lloyd Jones’s \u003cem\u003eThe Beaded Curtain\u003c\/em\u003e is a trenchant exploration of the artist as witness. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe text gets about from Jones’s Lower Hutt childhood and youthful wanderings across the USA to formative experiences such as seeing clothes from Hiroshima and his encounters with the Jewish Memorial in Berlin. From the hills of the Wairarapa to Hiroshima and Waiheke Island, he looks at examples of mavericks, in his own family and in those of poets and conscientious objectors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is, throughout, daringly innovative, the text folding one event inside another. With language so precise and at times so coruscating that it may have been cut from stone, and with a candour and humanity that draws the reader deep into Jones’s preoccupations and memories, \u003cem\u003eThe Beaded Curtain\u003c\/em\u003e challenges, rails and mourns as he grapples with the past. Elegant and searing, tender and angry, it holds the reader in its steady, accomplished, clear-eyed grip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo look inside, click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/masseypress\/docs\/the_beaded_curtain_look_inside\" title=\"Issuu\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-order now — books will be shipped 22 October 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Massey Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52576450216256,"sku":null,"price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0944\/6614\/6624\/files\/9781991309402.jpg?v=1782166267","url":"https:\/\/masseypress.ac.nz\/products\/the-beaded-curtain","provider":"Massey Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}