{"product_id":"rannamaari","title":"Rannamaari","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery month the sea demands a bride. This month, a stranger answers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMahal, in the Maldive Islands, 1153. Once a month something rises from the sea, shining like a ship hung with lamps, and a girl from the farming villages is dressed as a bride and left alone in the temple on the rock to meet it. The King calls it the price of the islands' safety. No girl has ever come back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYusuf is a scholar's son from Berbera, scarred by a war in the mountains of Dogor and stranded in the islands, selling sheep in the market to pay off his debts. Then the King's soldiers come for Maya, the sharp-tongued girl of the family who took him in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the King, the court and the fear of a whole island, Yusuf offers to take her place. Carrying the Book he learnt by heart as a boy, he will sit through one night alone in the temple and wait for what comes out of the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the account of Ibn Battuta and on Somali tradition, Rannamaari reimagines the legend of how the Maldives came to Islam: a story of courage, faith and the terror of the deep.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Imagine Nation","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68253970825520,"sku":"9780645332988","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9780645332988.jpg?v=1793775629","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/rannamaari","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}