{"product_id":"the-pashtun-boys-paradise","title":"The Pashtun Boy's Paradise","description":"\u003cp\u003eAsh has been told that Europe is paradise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the war, beyond the border, beyond the ruined lands and the armed men who treat boys like him as disposable, there is said to be a place without hunger, poverty or crime. A place where no one goes cold, no one goes forgotten, and no one needs to be afraid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo reach it, Ash must flee a war-torn homeland, escape the reach of a brutal local warlord, and cross a depopulated frontier haunted by ravenous hunting machines. Every step towards safety takes him deeper into a future shaped by fear, technology and the hard arithmetic of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut paradise has its own rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Europe Ash dreams of, suffering has been engineered out of existence. Violence, poverty and hunger are no longer tolerated. Nor, perhaps, are the inconvenient freedoms that make people fully human. As Ash moves closer to the world he has been promised, he discovers that utopia and dystopia may be separated by no more than a border checkpoint, a machine’s judgement, or a kindness that comes with conditions attached.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pashtun Boy’s Paradise is a near-future dystopian science fiction novel from Stephen Hunt, blending cyberpunk tension, migration drama and speculative political thriller. It is a story of survival, identity, belonging and the uneasy question at the heart of every perfect society: what must be lost to keep paradise running?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Green Nebula","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":67012104651056,"sku":"9610694000241","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-pashtun-boys-paradise","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}