{"product_id":"stan-on-guard","title":"Stan on Guard","description":"\u003cp\u003eIshtanu (call him Stan) is a Hittite immortal keeping his head down in Toronto and recounting some of his experiences. Trn is an immortal Trojan princess who thought she’d killed Stan in post-war Berlin but who now knows he survived. Yes, technically Stan can die. He has just managed not to for 3200 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs their stories braid together toward a final reckoning they take us through, among other things, a subversive retelling of the Odysseus story, the resistance of pagan Lithuania against Papal crusaders, the decline of Friedrich Nietzsche in a German clinic, the arts scene in\u003cem\u003ebelle epoque\u003c\/em\u003eParis, and the descent of Europe into the horrors of the Great War.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eStrap in.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStan On Guard\u003c\/em\u003eis the follow-up to K. R. Wilson’s tragical-comical-historical novel\u003cem\u003eCall Me Stan: A Tragedy in Three Millennia\u003c\/em\u003e, which was long-listed for the 2022 Leacock Medal for Humour.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46402057666770,"sku":"9781778490125","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_32a57110-0313-40fc-bb39-d34127f9962b.jpg?v=1762876450","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/stan-on-guard","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}