{"product_id":"the-delivery-by-peter-mendelsund-9781250829610","title":"The Delivery","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountries go wrong sometimes, and sometimes the luckier citizens of those countries have a chance to escape and seek refuge in another country—a country that might itself be in the process of going wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the bustling indifference of an unnamed city, one such citizen finds himself trapped working for a company that makes its money dispatching an army of undocumented refugees to bring the well-off men and women of this confounding metropolis their dinners. Whatever he might have been at home, this citizen is now a Delivery Boy: a member of a new and invisible working class, pedalling his power-assist bike through traffic, hoping for a decent tip and a five-star rating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe is decidedly a Delivery Boy; sometimes he even feels like a Delivery Baby; certainly he's not yet a Delivery Man, though he'll have to man up if he wants to impress N., the aloof dispatcher who sends him his orders and helps him with his English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCan our hero avoid the wrath of his Supervisor, get the girl, and escape his indentured servitude? Can someone in his predicament ever have a happy ending? Who gets to decide? And who's telling this story, anyway?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHarrowing and hilarious, \u003cem\u003eThe Delivery\u003c\/em\u003e is a fable for and about our times: an exploration of the ways language and commerce unite and isolate every one of us, native and immigrant both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244553285868,"sku":"9781250829610","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250829610-the-delivery-1.jpg?v=1788001056","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-delivery-by-peter-mendelsund-9781250829610","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}