{"product_id":"nicked-a-novel","title":"Nicked","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[An] uproarious saga . . . drawing on contemporary accounts, fantastical folk tales, and [Anderson's] own knack for high jinks.\"—New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] rollicking comic novel.\"—NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"M. T. Anderson is one of our greatest and most precious voices.\"—Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Trilogy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous, slyly funny, and delightfully queer work of historical fantasy, based on a bizarre but true quest to steal the mystical corpse of a long-dead saint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to serve the sick. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for “liberating” holy relics from their tombs. The seven-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas are rumored to weep a mysterious liquid that can heal the sick, Tyun says. For the humble price of a small fortune, he will steal the bones and deliver them to Bari, curing the plague and restoring glory to the fallen city. And Nicephorus, the “dreamer,” will be his guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is a heist for the ages, as Nicephorus is swept away on strange tides, and alongside even stranger bedfellows, to commit sacrilegious theft. Based on real historical accounts, Nicked is a swashbuckling saga, a medieval novel noir, a meditation on the miraculous, and a monastic meet-cute, filled with wide-eyed wonder at the world that awaits beyond our own borders.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Long Live the Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45102557495362,"sku":"9780593701607","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/8101\/7666\/files\/9780593701607.jpg?v=1787943076","url":"https:\/\/becksbooksmpls.com\/products\/nicked-a-novel","provider":"Long Live the Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}