{"product_id":"the-delivery-a-novel-by-peter-mendelsund","title":"The Delivery by Peter Mendelsund","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnter the world of the Delivery Boy, who must pedal his way to five-star customer ratings―and, perhaps, freedom―in novelist and graphic designer Peter Mendelsund’s The Delivery.\u003c\/p\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\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, pedaling his power-assist bike through traffic, hoping for a decent tip and a five-star rating.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\u003cp\u003eHarrowing and hilarious, The Delivery 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","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43319186980938,"sku":"6297i","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6297i.jpg?v=1771300576","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-delivery-a-novel-by-peter-mendelsund","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}