{"product_id":"talking-about-odwyer-9781860468360","title":"Talking About O'Dwyer","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion  killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? And why did the soldiers family place a curse on ODwyer  the officer who was his commander at the time he died? Half a century later two Oxford dons  Newall and Winterstoke  attend the funeral of their colleague ODwyer  an expatriate New Zealander. After the ceremony  Newall reveals to Winterstoke the story of the curse placed on ODwyer during the war and  in the days that follow  he continues the tales of ODwyer and his cursed life. Slowly the stories of Newall  another New Zealander in self-enforced exile  and of Winterstoke are also revealed in Steads complex and subtle narrative which shifts across time and space from New Zealand to Oxford to Croatia and to Crete at the time of the allied defeat there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923795640373,"sku":"ByrdShop_1860468365","price":99.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781860468360.jpg?v=1794115103","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/talking-about-odwyer-9781860468360","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}